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other" erf 8 qSjcnqsima THE RISING TIDE&W^ A Layman Writes "I want to voice my approval and commendation to the <strong>Covenanter</strong> Church for having at long last hit upon one of the most important things in giving weight to its testimony for Christ. I refer to the tithing resolution signed by eighty-eight prominent members of the church at large." Another One Says "What a great step has been taken in our <strong>Covenanter</strong> Church! Would it not be fitting to . . 'God's Kingdom will come. Do you accept the offered privilege of a part in the say . work by giving as He directed' Why not insist on preaching a whole Gospel, all graces supplementing each One Minister's Facts to His Congregation . 12,000 BUDGET RAISED LAST YEAR $103,000 ASKED FOR THIS YEAR 110,000 ADDITIONAL FOR JAPAN 5,000 INCREASE ASKED OVER LAST YEAR TOTAL GIVEN LAST YEAR 408,000 THREE PER CENT INCREASE OVER THAT WILL DOIT Straws in the Wind A MINISTER DOUBLES HIS LAST YEAR'S TITHE A PASTOR ASKS HIS PEOPLE TO MEET THEIR SHARE OF THE INCREASE ONE CONGREGATION HAS PLEDGED $1000 ABOVE REGULAR GIVING We Are on the Way IF EVERY COVENATER WILL ADD HIS WEIGHT COVENANTER WITNESS.
expressions" Missionary Number LESSON HELPS FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 20, 1955 VOLUME LIV WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1955 NUMBER 5 The "Why" of Evangelical Missions JAMES DeFOREST MURCH, D.D. In United Evangelical Action, used by Permission. EVANGELICALS are by nature missionary. The largest per capita giving in Protestantism for foreign missions is in strictly evangelical denomin ations. For some years now the largest number of new foreign missionaries have been sent by evan gelical boards. In fact, if it were not for the new ly-developing strength of these boards there would be a tragic loss of zeal and accomplishment in the total picture of Protestant Christian missions. It is unfortunate that the once-universal Prot estant fellowship in the task of evangelization has been broken. There was a time when the missionary of the world was united in its belief that leadership Jesus Christ, God and Saviour, is the only hope of a world lost in sin and shame. Today humanistic activism and an intellectual and religious syncretism have been projected into world missions to the de struction of its unity and evangelicals have been forced to build again the foundations. The only authentic Christianity that ever was or ever will be is the Christianity that is both Jesus, the historic Son of Man and Son of God, and the Eternal Christ, the risen and everlasting Master and Lord. This Christianity is not a search of man for God. It is God's offer of Himself to men in Christ, who was not a "fellow seeker with us after bodily." God," but "the fullness of the Godhead This Christianity does not admit that mankind is capable in itself of constant progress and improve ment and of advancing toward perfection, but holds that motive and power are in Christ to those who are born again through the Gospel. Evangelicals are, therefore, convinced that the preaching of the Gospel is the essential task of missions and must always remain so. We do not object to programs for the solution of agricultural, social, political and industrial problems but we be lieve that each country, race and generation must solve its own problems in the light of God's Word through the native churches. Our chief aim is the personal conversion of men to a new life in Christ, to complete surrender to God's will as re vealed in His Word and to new relations of love to their fellowman. Evangelicals refuse to identify Christianity with non-Chrstian religions. Christianity is not a re ligion in the sense that it is a search for God. We refuse to compromise with heathenism. We believe Christianity should perceive and hold fast the truth of its own uniqueness. It should be proclaimed in a simple message by words and deeds transfused with love. It should anticipate the absolute triumph of Christ as acknowledged Lord and Saviour. To this end evangelicals shall not be satisfied until all men everywhere have heard the Gospel and have had an opportunity to accept it. So much for the basic principles of evangelical missions. We shall seek always to build construc tively upon these foundations. But we are also realistically face to face with "liberalism" in foreign missions. Liberalism came into the missionary picture as a parasite, living on the boards, institutions, and missions built up by evangelicals, and undermining the fundamental be liefs and practices that have made Christian mis sions a vital force in the world. Liberals deny that men are lost without Christ, in the full New Testa ment sense. They look upon the authentic historical facts of the New Testament as "symbolic imagina nontive of Christianity. They consider Christians as brothers in the common quest for (Continued on page 73)
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