What Time Is It?

October 24, 2008

Not all time is created equal. The Bible distinguishes between kairos and chronos. Kairos is significant time: meaningful, in the present, quality time. Karios time is where Jesus lived. Chronos is clock time: linear, chronological, sequential, measurable, quanity time. This is were we live.

Busyness, hurry and productivity are usually activities of chronos, while reflection, relationships and spirituality are usually activities of kairos.

Do people need help managing time because they are too busy? Or do people need help managing time because they have lost the sense of the meaning of time?

Author Ben Patterson writes, “The Bible calls us to live first by kairos (significant time) and to let kairos dictate to chronos (clock time) what we will do and how we will live.”

I find Patterson’s word to speak to the disperate need of an order. Should we not understand the daily pattern and rthytm of prayer as karios time (meaningful, relational, quality) that will, or should influence and determine the chronos time of our day?

Posted by brad brisco | Filed Under Sacred Rhythm 

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