The Christian Life

The Christian life is life lived under the Lordship of Jesus Christ — in the family, the workplace, the local church, and the civic square. Reformed ethics is rooted in the moral law summarized in the Ten Commandments (WCF 19; Heidelberg Catechism Q&A 91–114), applied by the Spirit through the ordinary means of grace: the Word, sacraments, and prayer.

Historic Christian theology distinguishes but does not separate the two kingdoms — Christ rules the visible church through Word and sacrament, and he rules the civil realm through providence and common grace. Vocation is not a lesser or greater calling but the ordinary place of sanctification: the Christian farmer, lawyer, parent, teacher, or homemaker serves God in their station as truly as the minister in the pulpit.

These questions treat the spiritual disciplines (prayer, Bible reading, tithing, spiritual warfare), the hard pastoral questions (anxiety, grief, doubt, fear, God's will for your life), the Christian family (dating, marriage, parenting, friendship), Christian vocation, and contested cultural questions (money, politics, technology, the environment, war, capital punishment, the arts, science, sports). Sanctification happens in ordinary life.