'Ordinary Christians working in business, industry, politics, factory work, and so on, are "the Church's front-line troops in her engagment with the world," wrote Leslie Newbigin. Imagine how our churches would be transformed if we truly regarded laypeople as frontline troops in the spiritual battle. "Are we taking seriously our duty to support them in their warfare?" Newbigin asked. "Have we ever done anything seriously to strengthen their Christian witness, to help them in facing the very difficult ethical problems which they have to meet every day, to give them assurance that the whole fellowship is behind them in their spiritual warfare?" The church is nothing less than a training ground for sending out laypeople who are equipped to speak the gospel to the world.'
Nancy Pearcey, Total Truth, p.67.
