Bringing Our Missionary Methods under the Word of God

Abstract

The Presbyterian Church in the United States held a very significant Consultation on World Missions at Montreat, North Carolina, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth of October, 1962. Some 250 delegates/members and executives of the Board of World Missions of The Presbyterian Church in the U.S., other officials of that Church, representative missionaries, and nationals from the areas of its overseas mission work/$$, consultants and observers met for frank and intense discussion of problems of the Christian mission.

The following article is an address which Bishop Newbigin delivered before the Consultation on October 14. It deals with the foundational consideration which ought to characterize every inquiry into the motives, strategies, structures, and practices of the mission of Christ and His Church. The address is reproduced here by permission of the author and the Board of World Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.