He is often regarded as one of the most well-known Bible teachers and preachers and pioneers of the Indian Church movement and Gospel contextualization.

Lakshmi Bai Joya in 1903 in Joiya village, Sargodha District of the Punjab, British India.

He quickly adapted to this lifestyle, started smoking and drinking, travelled around Europe, and indulged in all kinds of fun and entertainment.

He was befriended by John and Edith Hayward, local residents and devout Christians, who invited him to live with them.

[citation needed] Bakht Singh began speaking as a fiery itinerant preacher and revivalist throughout colonial India, gaining a large following.

"Singh's role in the 1937 revival that swept the Martinbur United Presbyterian Church inaugurated one of the most notable movements in the history of the church in the Indian subcontinent," stated Jonathan Bonk in Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions published by Simon & Schuster Macmillan in 1998.

[7] He started thoroughly contextualized local assemblies patterned on New Testament principles after spending a night in prayer on a mountaintop at Pallavaram, Chennai in 1941.

After this, the convocations were held annually in Madras and Hyderabad in the south, and in Ahmedabad and Kalimpong in the north.

J. Edwin Orr, a British Church historian: "Brother Bakht Singh is an Indian equivalent of the greater Western evangelists, as skillful as Finney and as direct as Dwight L. Moody.

Dave Hunt, an apologetics writer: "The arrival of Bakht Singh turned the churches of Madras upside down.

Many seriously ill were healed when Bakht Singh prayed for them, even deaf and dumb began to hear and speak."

Bob Finley, President of Christian Aid Mission: "I have never seen a man who has a greater knowledge and understanding of the Bible than Bakht Singh.