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Last issue featured Ed Schroeder's mature description of the theology and practice of lay ministry - not lay ministry in the church but lay ministry in the world (http://www.crossings.org). But did it sound too good to be true, more like a professor's idealism than a practical reality? Did you, Dear Reader, want an instance of a regular believer in a regular workplace who, in the words of the offertory prayer to which Ed referred, "dedicates himself to the care and redemption of all that You have made"? Then take, for instance, the following slice of a believer's life.
My friend Vin does his work as the Christian he is, and does it in a place few of us would want even to visit: a prison. No, he is not a chaplain; he is a guard, a "blue shirt." How does he do his guarding as a caring and redeeming servant of Christ? It is my privilege to tell you.