Church to take on the secular world. This is easy to say and sacrificial to do” (Witness in Six Continents, p. 151). It comes more natural to us to shout the gospel at people from a distance than to involve ourselves deeply in their lives, to think ourselves into their culture and their problems, and to feel with them in their pains. Yet this implication of our Lord’s example is inescapable. As the Lausanne Covenant put it: “We affirm that Christ sends his redeemed people into the world as the Father