The Two Kinds of Time
Hours and Minutes vs. Moments
When I was in college, I had a mentor who had a profound impact on my life. We would meet together for lunch every week. I learned so much from him. One lesson especially will stay with me until the day I die. He taught me about two different kinds of time — kairos and chronos.
Chronos Time
When someone asks you for the time, they’re talking about chronos. It’s a Greek word for time. According to Strong’s Greek Concordance, chronos is defined in the Greek as “time, a particular time, season.”
Days, months and years. Hours, minutes and seconds. Passing the time. I don’t have enough time for that. I need more time in the day.
So often we talk about chronos. We probably don’t even realize it.
Chronos is good. In many ways, our world revolves around time. It’s how we make sense of things. We need the “chronological” (See anything familiar there?) conception of time.
But there is another conception of time that is even more powerful. It’s emotional. I’m talking about kairos.
