Scope of Daily Living

Since all of life is relationally oriented, we can begin by listing all the relationships we find ourselves involved with:

God
Other spiritual beings (angelic, demonic)
Self
Other people
Environment

These relationships give birth to and are conducted within political, economic, social, and religious realities, as the following Venn diagram indicates:

Spiritual reality

Environmental Reality

Social Reality

Economic Reality

Political Reality

Religious Reality

Each of these realities in which we currently find ourselves must be ruthlessly critiqued by the values of the Kingdom outlined previously, and we must work to seeing the values of the Kingdom outworked in each realm, at least beginning with ourselves and our own lifestyle.

A help for us in doing this successfully is to note how God Himself has acted in history, as recorded in the Bible, in each of these realms. Therefore, perhaps one of the most important things we should first learn is how to read the Bible.