Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

Yeah. Yes, God, God, God don't never change.

So welcome to the

to the podcast this is episode 273 my name is Douglas Wilson and I'm I welcome you

aboard. Thanks for coming so today I want to talk about the integrated life.

One of the taglines that we have used here in Moscow for some years now is all of Christ for all of life.

What are we talking about when we say that?

All of Christ for all of life.

Well if we believe that God is sovereign, and we do, Well if we believe that God is sovereign and we do and if we believe that Jesus Christ

was given universal dominion after his resurrection from the dead and we believe that too, then that means that there is no area of human existence

that can be considered to be outside of his authority.

And that means when we engage in whatever it is, shoveling the

walk or mowing the lawn or programming a computer or painting a picture or

changing a diaper or washing the dishes, whatever it is we do, as

Paul puts it in Corinthians, whatever you do, whatever you eat or drink, do it all to the glory

of God. So if we are to eat our French fries down to the last

French fry to the glory of God, then that means we have to have a principle of integration. We have to be able to tie all things together

and they have to all hold together or tie together in Christ. Owen Barfield, a friend of C.S. Lewis, once said of Lewis that what he thought about everything

was contained in what he said about anything.

What he thought about everything was contained within what he said about anything.

And what does that mean?

Well, it means, basically, that C.S. Lewis was a worldview thinker.

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