Within Kairos

Taken from wikipedia:

Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the “right or opportune moment”. The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter signifies “a time in between”, a moment of undetermined period of time in which “something” special happens. What the special something is depends on who is using the word. While chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative nature.

Kairos is the ‘window of opportunity’, or a time of crisis. The right time to act to get something done.

Ephesians 6:18 says:

And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

In this passage, all occasions come from Kairos. Here we are being told we should pray in the Spirit at all opportune times, or at all crisis times. You’ve probably heard of someone waking up in the night knowing they had to pray for a friend, and then finding out the next day that their friend was in danger. This is one example of a Kairos time.

I have chosen to use this as my blog title, as East Asia right now has a window of opportunity to receive the gospel.� The people are more than willing to hear, and the church is growing at an incredible rate.

Japan once had a ‘Kairos time’, just after World War II there was a great openness to the gospel. Although today’s Japan is very closed to the gospel, most of the surviving churches are the ones started during that window of opportunity directly after the war.

We cannot let this moment pass us again. East Asia is ‘within Kairos’ and we are called to reach them now.