Word: gospeling
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...Gospel & the Broom
Once, spreading the Gospel was the white man's spiritual burden; now all the world's Christians share it. Says the Rev. Willem Visser 't Hooft, general secretary of the World Council of Churches: " 'Mission' no longer is traffic from West to East, but traffic from everywhere to everywhere...
...countries. This year, for example, the United Church of North India and Pakistan sent the Rev. Emmanuel Johnson to Glasgow, where he works in a mission parish that serves both emigrants from Pakistan and Scots. In time, more missionaries from the East will be called upon to preach the Gospel in Christian countries that are in need of re-evangelizing-including the U.S. Next spring, the National Council of Churches plans to send teams of ministers and laymen who are experts on racial conflict to Mississippi. The teams will include foreigners, probably from Africa and the melting-pot slums...
...custom in the ancient Eastern liturgies. On certain solemn occasions, such as Nuptial Masses, laymen would be able to receive Communion in the form of wine as well as bread. And the Mass would conclude not with the reading of the beginning of St. John's Gospel, a late Renaissance accretion, but with a final blessing of the people by the priest. Into this framework, bishops would be able to incorporate suitable local customs. When and to what degree the reforms will be carried out is still to be determined...
...became 'climate.' Now it's 'posture.' " Because Karl Barth's influence is generally on the wane in the U.S., the word "encounter"-meaning man's confrontation with God-is now slightly old hat. Bultmann's "demythologizing"-meaning to strip the Gospel message of its nonfactual elements-is still very much In, as are the provocative terms coined in a Nazi prison by Bonhoeffer during World War II-"holy worldliness," "religionless Christianity," "cheap grace." But sometimes words lose favor when they are used too often; koinonia, from the Greek word for fellowship...