Lesslie Newbigin

I have been forced to recognise that the most difficult missionary frontier in the contemporary world is the one of which the Churches have been - on the whole - so little conscious, the frontier that divides the world of biblical faith from the world whose values and beliefs are ceaselessly fed into every home on the television screen... England is a pagan society and the development of a truly missionary encounter with this very tough form of paganism is the greatest intellectual and practical task facing the Church

Lesslie Newbigin

 

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