There has been much talk of the difference between ‘professional’ ministry and ‘lay ministry’. But are such distinctions helpful? Gordon has a better suggestion. A slightly arbitrary definition of ‘lay ministry’ is ‘unpaid ministry in the church performed by nonprofessionals’. The idea of ‘laity’ comes from the Greek ‘laos’, meaning
They say that everyone has a book inside them, and fortunately, in most cases, it stays there.Some of us have more than one.I seem to have half a library lurking around in there somewhere. My adrenal gland, for example, wants to write a sporting autobiography called Seeing Red and White: