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We've all heard the sermons and read the books: "If you really loved God, you would be radical. You would sell your belongings. You would become a missionary and move to another country." Matthew B. Redmond has preached the gospel of doing more for God, and he wants out. In this collection of essays, he asks a simple question: what about the rest of us? Is there a God for our often-mundane lives? This is a book about pastors, plumbers, dental hygienists, and stay-at-home moms. It finds grace and mercy in chicken fingers, smiles from strangers, and classic films, and ultimately convicts us of something Matt Redmond has learned himself: there is a God of the mundane, and it's not about what we do for him. It's about what he does for us.
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- Brand: Brand: Kalos Press
- Published on: 2012-12-01
- Original language: English
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- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .22" w x 5.51" l, .28 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 92 pages
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful.
Radical nonradicalism...
By D. E.
I have a confession to make. I did not expect to enjoy reading The God of the Mundane as much as I did. I have followed Matt Redmond's blog, Echoes and Stars, for a while, as well as his previous blog. I was there to read the posts that were the genesis of this book. Matt is a great writer, and his words prompt the reader to think. However, while part of me agreed with his premise that led to the book, another part of me was fighting it.
In the blog posts and the book, Matt addresses the current movement of radicalism in the church. He makes mention of "rock star" preachers who preach and demand that we must give up everything and move to a remote island somewhere as missionaries in order to show our faithfulness. He warns us that we make Paul the focus of the story rather than the many nameless, ordinary faithful to whom he wrote his letters. Matt questions whether people realize that God can be glorified even in the mundane lives of the majority.
Like Matt, I grew up in the South. I also grew up in an ultra-conservative denomination. The career choices of pastor or missionary were always held in great esteem and also provided proof of one's spiritual maturity. As a little girl, I dreamed of being a missionary. I always stood up or raised my hand when pastors or speakers evoked the call of Isaiah, "Whom shall I send?" I felt the call down to my toes. Every part of me was willing, desirous, of that life no matter the trials that came with it.
When I read those initial blog posts, I admit I bristled. The emphasis on missions only intensified when I entered college ministry, and I had attended many conferences like the ones Matt seemed to be calling out. They had moved me. The insinuations that the way I had been taught and challenged by various pastors, directors, speakers could be misguided caused me to balk. It seemed, upon my first readings of the blog posts which inspired this book, that he was even making light of the Great Commission itself.
However, reading Matt's book made me remember something. It made me remember the inside cover of a journal from college and the words I had written there. I told God that I didn't want my life to be about fireworks...a great display of me. I wanted instead to quietly bring Glory to His name. After college, I made plans for seminary and the mission field. And, then the plans changed. Always, deep down, I felt as though I failed Him...that I missed the mark. Matt's book helped me to let that go. Even as a homeschool mom investing all my life and time into the development of two precious people, I felt something was missing. I longed for the fireworks I had prayed against so long ago. There must be something out there--something greater I should be doing besides this, besides loving and serving my family and showing kindness and love to those around me along the way.
Matt also reminded me of Paul's challenge in the letter to the Thessalonians: ...aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you.... Somewhere along the way I forgot that it was okay to be ordinary. I forgot that the people in the Bible stories I loved were just ordinary people, living life, having babies and caring for them, tending sheep. The extraordinary thing was their God. My God. This life is not about the great things I do for Him. It's about showing up, in the ordinary, and allowing God to meet me here. It's about being available for His use, however menial or small it seems to me. Soli Deo Gloria.
I enjoyed the book immensely. The stories made me think about many things in a new light. Although I do not agree completely with Matt on all points, the book fleshed out his principal theme in a way that resonated in me. It also provided freedom from a burden I had wrongly carried far too long. And, my initial apprehensions were quelled. At one point Matt makes reference to Jesus' statement in Mark 9:41--For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward. This book was like a much needed cup of water for me, and I am grateful Matt took the time to write it.
~Mrs. D.E.
26 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Your life matters...no matter how mundane it seems.
By Michael Newnham
My passion as a pastor (and to a degree as a blogger) is to impress upon my congregation that they matter.
Their lives matter.
Their jobs matter.
Their relationships matter.
All about them matters and it all matters to God.
Matt Redmond has written the book I wish I could have written on the subject.
I might have failed to write it, but I won't fail to promote it.
In the American church we place great importance on the big and the successful..."As I look around the landscape of evangelicalism, the world I find myself in, the mundane escapes notice. The ordinary is given lip-service, but overlooked like the garnish on a steak dinner. What the evangelical church really wants is something as large as God Himself, whether personality or performance, workers or windfalls."
After confessing that he used to preach to fit this model, Matt writes the following;
"Really? Is this the normal Christian life? Is God sitting around waiting for each and every believer to do something monumental? Is this the warp and woof of the New Testament? Are the lifestyles of the Apostles the standard for the persons in the pew? Are the first-century believers the standard? Is this our God? In the economy of God, do only the times when we are doing something life-changing have any spiritual cache with Him? Does He look over the mundane work of the housewife only to see the missions trip she may go on? So, I wondered. I wondered about the great majority I have known and know. The great majority living fairly ordinary lives. Is there a God, for instance, for those who are not changing anything but diapers? Is there a God for those who simply love their spouse and pour out rarely-appreciated affection on their children day after day? Is there a God for the mom who spends what feels like God-forsaken days changing diapers and slicing up hot dogs? Is there a God for the men who hammer out a day's work in obscurity for the love of his wife and kids? Is there a God for just and kind employers? Generous homemakers? Day-laborers who would look at a missions trip to Romania like it was an unimaginable vacation? Is there a God for the middle-class mom staving off cancer, struggling to raise teenagers and simply hoping both Mom and Dad keep their job? Is there a God for the broken home with a full bank account but an empty bed? Is there a God for grown children tending to the health of their aged parents? Is there a God, who delights in the ordinary existence of the unknown faithful doing unknown work? Is there a God of grace for those who live out their faith everywhere but do not want to move anywhere? Is there a God for those who have bigger homes than me? More money than me? Nicer cars than me? Better health than me? Is there a God for the mundane parts of life, the small moments? Is there a God of kind smiles, good tips and good mornings? Is there a God of goodbye hugs and parting kisses? What about firm, truthful handshakes and grasps of frail fingers in sanitized hospital rooms? Does God care about the forgotten mundane moments between the sensational, those never remembered? Or are those spiritually vacuous moments for which there is no God? Is there a God of the mundane? Does this God I worship care about mundane people and moments?"
Redmond spends the rest of the book answering with an emphatic "YES" to all of the above.
This is not a large book... you could read it in an afternoon, but the truths contained in it will last you for a lifetime.
If I had the money to do so there are two books I'd put in the hands of everyone.
"Knowing God" by Packer...and this one.
One to teach you about the greatness of your God and one to teach you how that great God works through your seemingly ordinary life.
You matter.
Thank you, Matt.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Brother Lawrence, meet Matt Redmond
By Dee
Read this book unless you are a famous megachurch pastor, an NFL superstar, or a Wall Street mover and shaker. This book was written for the rest of us. I am one of those "everyone else" folks. I have never written a review before and even hesitated in doing so because I am no one special. But wait! That is what The God of the Mundane is all about.
Years ago, I read The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. This 17th century monk coined the phrase "the God of the pots and pans." This "nothing special" friar penned his thoughts about serving God in his day-to-day activities in the kitchen of a French monastery. Interestingly, the words of this "not so special" kitchen monastic have survived while most of us have forgotten who the movers and shakers were in that region and time. Matt Redmond is the Brother Lawrence of our day.
Most of us live out quiet lives, tending to our families, loving our neighbors, volunteering in our churches and schools. Some of us are stuck in boring jobs but are grateful because these jobs put bread on the table. Some of us have lost jobs and are struggling to make ends meet. Then, we go to church and are told we need to be "radical." We are encouraged to be like the Apostle Paul, William Wilberforce or Martin Luther, causing a revolution and changing our world. Then, we walk away, feeling that we have somehow failed God.
Matt makes the important point that Paul was writing to the church, most of whom were not making missionary journeys or writing the great theological works of the day. The nascent Christian faith grew because average people faithfully lived their lives as servants, slaves, tradesmen or shepherds. Jesus himself chose the fisherman to be His disciples, not Roman senators. Christianity became famous because of the thousands of unnamed faithful who quietly spread the word of a life-changing encounter with a Jesus who spent more time with the unknowns than the famous.
Matt gives dignity and purpose to the faithful homemaker, bank teller, barista, fast food worker and the rest of us who continue to cause a quiet revolution as we offer our daily, not-so-special routine, in the love and service of our God. Now that is something special!
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