People would regularly ask us if we were a
Christian band when they found out I was a pastor. I always found the
question a bit odd. When you meet a plumber, do you ask her if she is a
Christian plumber? I realize now why I chafed against the question.

My understanding is that to be Christian is to do whatever it is that you do
with great passion and devotion. We throw ourselves into our work because
everything is sacred. I love how Paul put it in Colossians: "Whatever you
do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus." He
is teaching people to live as Christians, and then whatever they do will be
sacred, holy work. Music already is worship. Music is praise. Music is
sacred. Music is good. Creation doesn't need a label to make it sacred or
acceptable or blessed. When God made the world, God called it "good". Now
obviously anything can be corrupted and desecrated and used for purposes
other than those which God intends, but making music is sacred enough. Paul
put it like this: "For everything God created is good." ...

... This is why it is impossible for a Christian to have a secular job. If
you follow Jesus and you are doing what you doing what you do in his name,
then it is no longer secular work; it's sacred. You are there; God is
there. The difference is our awareness.