In every generation if we are to apprehend the abiding forces that will dominate and direct the future, then we must believe in the minute, the diminutive, and the inconspicuous, as is seen in such New Testament words as "mustard seed" and "leaven." The most remembered events turn out to be not the vociferous and noisy affairs that split the eardrums of their contemporaries, but rather the embryonic, the secretive, and often the imperceptible. When the masses of West Germans danced on the Berlin Wall and thousands of East Germans passed through it, little did the world know that this was a result of a prayer service that had been held in Nikolai Church in downtown Leipzig. Eventually, this quiet, imperceptible group of people gathering for what the world considered a harmless time for p…