The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us to drift far from Our Lord's conception of discipleship. It is instilled in us to think that we have to do exceptional things for God; we have not. We have to be exceptional in ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, surrounded by sordid sinners. That is not learned in five minutes.

Even before they married Chambers considered a partnership in ministry in which Biddy--who could take shorthand at 250 words per minute--would transcribe and type his sermons and lessons into written form. Chambers did not oppose glossolalia but criticized those who made it a test of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. " "No one was ever turned away from the door and whatever the person asked for whether money a winter overcoat or a meal was given.