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Friday Five: Michael Kelley

Why a boring, quiet Christian life may just be exactly what God wants from you.

For today's entry in the Friday Five interview series, we catch up with Michael Kelley.

Michael is the Director of Discipleship for Lifeway Christian Resources and blogs regularly at Forward Progress. He is the author of several books, including Wednesdays Were Pretty Normal and Holy Vocabulary.

His latest is Boring, Finding an Extraordinary God in an Ordinary Life. Today we asked why he thinks the quiet, unspectacular life might actually be radical.

This book is somewhat countercultural–at least in the evangelical world–with its push against the sort of world-changing, "radical" message. Was that intended?

Yes and no. When I began writing the book, I did so with a few very specific people in mind. These are people who raise their families in godly ways, are faithful church members, and work in secular fields where they have chances to share the gospel regularly. But these are also people who have, in my conversations with them, regularly asked the question of whether or not they are really ...

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