For A Sacred Secular "Divide"

There is a slogan abroad which attacks the sacred / secular divide. But it more accurate to criticise the harm which a version of the sacred / secular divide can do. 

In Bible terms, there is the sacred (the holy) and the ordinary: there is the temple / garden / mountain and the land (and the world, for that matter). 

Sunday is special. Gathered worship is special. There is the church and there is the world. The church has its special officers (presbyters and deacons and so on). And it has The Word. There are also other ordinary words for the rest of the week. It has its sacraments of the Supper and Baptism - there are other ordinary meals and washings and so on. 

So we are not aiming to abolish a sacred / secular distinction. Yes, all of life is worship, but that does not devalue special gathered communal public worship which God commands.

What we must emphasise is that the common and ordinary (the secular, if you like) matters to God. And the sacred is meant to affect the secular. The culture always follows the cult, for good or ill. The pulpit is the prow, the helm of the world. Our Lord's Day service of Covenant Renewal in the Mountain / Temple equips us for life in the world / land as we fulfil our vocation of making earth more like heaven, of cultivating the land, of spreading out the influence of the Garden. 

Sacred and ordinary both good, both important, to be distinguished not separated.