REVOLUTION IN WORLD MISSIONS

    

 K. P. Yohannan shares with us, "In my prayers I began to seek a message from God that would bring a change in lifestyle to the American Church. It came over a period of weeks.

     And that message came loud and clear. Unless there is repentance among Christians—individually and in concert as a community of believers—an awesome judgment will fall on America.

     I was certain then, and still am today, that God's loving hands of grace and forgiveness remain extended to His people. 

     Two reasons, it appeared to me, were the cause for the current malaise that has fastened like cancer on American believers. 

     The first is historical. The second is the unconfessed sins related to three basic iniquities: pride, unbelief and worldliness.

     Historically, the Western Church lost its grip on the challenge for world missions at the end of World War II. Ever since that time, its moral mandate and vision for global outreach have continued to fade.

     Many average North American believers can hardly pronounce the word missionary without having cartoon caricatures of ridiculous little men in pith helmets pop into mind—images of cannibals with spears and huge black pots of boiling water.

     Despite a valiant rear guard action by many outstanding evangelical leaders and missions, it has been impossible for the Western missionary movement to keep up with exploding populations and the new political realities of nationalism in the Two-Thirds World. 

     Most Christians in North America still conceive of missions in terms of blond-hared, blue-eyed white people going to the dark-skinned Two-Thirds World nations. 

     In reality, all of that changed at the end of World War II when the Western powers lost political and military control of their former colonies.

     When I stand before North American audiences in churches and mission conference, people are astonished to hear the real facts of missions today. 

     The front-line work of missions in Asia has been taken over almost completely by indigenous missionaries. And the results are outstanding. 

     Believers are shocked to learn that National missionaries are starting hundreds of new churches every week in the Two-Thirds World, that thousands of people a day are coming to Christ, and that tens of thousands of well-qualified, spiritually able men and women now are ready to start more mission work if we can raise their support."

This is taken from K. P. Yohannan's book, Revolution in World Missions

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