The call for reciprocal relationship
Posted by wisdomtree on January 4, 2008
The commission addressed the reciprocal relationship between the Church in Christian countries and the Church in Mission-fields. “[T]he most crucial problem in relation to evangelising the world is the state of the Church in Christian countries. We are frank to concede that it is futile to talk about making Christ known in the world in this generation or any generation unless there be a great expansion of vitality in the member of the Churches of Christendom.” Luxury and materialism in the West are identified as “imminent perils” from which the Church itself must be saved.
Proposals in Commission one: “Carrying the Gospel to all the Non-Christian World”,
World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910
