Abstract
Among missiologists of the Twentieth Century, none seemed so aware of the inescapable components of conflict and suffering in the missionary task as Roland Allen. More, none seemed so convinced of the Church's need to submit to the Holy Spirit's direction and to follow the patterns he had given the apostles for their missionary obedience. As a result, he was the apostle of the “voluntary clergy” and the champion of “spontaneous expansion.” Allen's writings were produced long before the Charismatic Movement became worldwide, but they are suffused with its distinctive — that the world can be evangelized, not by the might of missions, or by the organizational and intellectual power of Christians, but by the Spirit of the living God.
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