The church and the international mind
Illustration★★★★God hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. 2 co. 5:18 The church of Christ is not in politics; that is to say, it is not concerned with the controversies of parties or the ambitions of persons. But its sphere is the 228 whole of life, nothing less; its specific task to make vivid in thought and con- trolling in action the principles which in a Christian civilization must govern all human relations.
If it fail to touch with redemptive power any bit of human life; if any group of relations—domestic, social, industrial, political, national, or international—is untouched by its influence, in so far it fails of its function, in so far it fails in loyalty to its great Master, to whom nothing human was foreign.
The point
A theological statement that the church's task is to bring redemptive power to all spheres of human life—family, society, industry, politics, and nations—not withdrawing but engaging the world.