The term 'laity' is one of the worst in the vocabulary of religion and ought to be banished from the Christian conversation.
There will be no song on our lips if there be no anguish in our hearts.
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.
Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.