Behold! Now is the time for the Laity
Missions is going through a paradigm shift, a field that has been in the last 40 years predominantly played by the big and small mission organizations, churches and mega churches , evangelists, tele-evangelists and full time missionaries till now, is going through a silent but distinct shift to the common lay believer. Recently I was listening to the transformational story of a young engineer from a non-Christian background and he told me that he came to know Jesus and became his follower because one of his team members who was a follower of Jesus, lived out Christ in his work place. His life, words and attitude attracted this engineer to him and that guy took the initiative to introduce Christ to him. This is happening all around us in rapidly increasing frequencies especially in the work places, in IT and other professional sector, in business domains and among students in schools and colleges where the disciples of Jesus are becoming witnesses of the L...