Kingdom Work Outside Of Sunday

There's a quiet lie that runs through a lot of church culture: that real ministry is what happens on a stage, and everything else is what you do to fund it.

If that were true, then the plumber, the nurse, the teacher and the software developer are all second-tier Christians — useful, but not really in the game. Which would be strange, given that most of Jesus' own life was spent in a workshop.

Where people actually are

Consider the arithmetic. A committed churchgoer might spend two or three hours a week in a church building. They'll spend forty at work.

And the people at that workplace are, statistically, far less likely to walk into a church than the people already in one. Your colleagues are a mission field that no evangelist can reach as naturally as you can.

What this looks like in practice

Business as a Kingdom engine

There's a practical dimension too. Public Gospel festivals cost real money — stages, sound, permits, insurance, printing. They are very often possible because business owners in the city decided their profits had a purpose beyond themselves.

That's the conviction behind Lions Den Alliance, an alliance of Kingdom businesses. It's also why some of the tools we use day to day were built in-house rather than bought — TaskSimply came out of needing to run festival logistics without losing our minds.

Creativity counts too. Stories reach people arguments can't, which is the thinking behind SIX33 Legends, and even what you wear can open a door — SIX33 Outpost exists partly because a t-shirt has started more conversations than a tract.

And it starts at home

Before any of the public work, there's the private version nobody applauds — a marriage served well, children discipled patiently, a home that's genuinely open.

That's the least photogenic and most load-bearing ministry there is. Daniel & Katie write about that side of it, and there's more long-form thinking at DanielZiedins.com.