In a brief but highly provocative post on the Lausanne website entitled, Tear down this wall: A note for pastors and laity,?Kent Humphreys makes the following assertion:
“… a small minority (perhaps one to five percent of the ?professional vocational ministers?)?do?understand the problem and are modeling the biblical paradigm. Another fifteen to twenty percent may think they understand (and may even preach it), but they?do not model it. I am convinced that a full eighty percent of ?ordinary? believers?do not understand their calling?as full-time ambassadors of Christ.”
He goes on to outlines obstacles for pastors/Christian leaders and the laity and makes some suggestions as to how each group can begin to address the issues. ?We’ll break the comments up into four posts to allow time for you to ruminate on the issues. ?Of course, the impatient ones can press the link and get the whole story in one go!? [Read more…] about Bridging the gap between pastors and workplace leaders (Part A)