CHURCH NOT A CLUB
Introducing the proposals of the Spiritual Advance Committee to the Methodist Conference today, the Rev. B. M. Chrystay. said that there was a great and grave danger of the Church becoming a club, and members resting happy and contented. If the Church refused the challenge of the hour it was damned. It was insufficient to convert men, unless they were converted to a life of daring. "
They were living in an age which saw the crumbling of a Christian civilisation, an age of barbarism, said the Rev. F. H. Robertson, organiser of the Christian Order Movement, but it was only fair to say that doors had been opened more to the Christian Church during the last 100 years than at any period in her history. The movement was organised to build for the future, and the churches of New Zealand had now an organisation which had already spread in the East and in Great Britain. Without looking backward to an age that was past, the churches must look at society today and face their task.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1942, Page 6
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