My conviction then was that although there were certainly truths in many of these calls, there had developed an imbalance. The call to radical Christian life seemed to entail either completely forsaking everything in this world or question your own salvation. On the other side of the pendulum were the Christians who were being challenged because although they weren't called into mission work, it seemed that they were being berated as second class citizens of the kingdom. The "real" radicals were the ones who sold their homes, loaded up their children, and went on the mission field in the jungles of South America.

Thankfully, over the last few years, there has grown more nuance when discussing the "radical" life of a Christian. My attempt in that message was to try to bring balance to my concern by drawing out the reality of being "radical" in the "normal and mundane" things of life.

How is a working mother of three supposed to be radical while she is changing her millionth diaper? Or the office working, 9-5 husband who loves his wife and children and faithfully serves in his local church? Can we be radical even in these normal things of life. That was my aim in that message.

We need to remember that there are no second class citizen of the kingdom of God. We all have spiritual gifts, talents, and abilities that the Spirit gives as he wills. And these spiritual gifts are meant for the building up of the body. That's the picture that Paul uses to describe the church. A body. With hands, eyes, feet, arms, legs, lips, ears. What good is it if all the parts of the body are ears? Or eyes? Or hands? And so, we need to recover a right understanding of the plurality of ways that God means to build up the church through the people within the church.