| Summary: | It is argued in this thesis that the real solution for the problems of the world
lies in the progressive realisation of the coming of God's Kingdom in which a
crucial role is played by evangelisation through a church in which the Holy
Spirit is abundantly active. A church who is in the grip of dead intellectualism
and apostasy cannot be God's agent of change. God calls the people of the
church to start with themselves. Only after they have seen their own need for
repentance and have eventually found new vigour in their spiritual life can
they reach out to the world in its depravity to call it to repentance. The vibrant
life that the church experienced at different stages in her history was a gift
from the triune God. The people in the church must, however, accept their
responsibility in making revival the goal of their most earnest endeavours. The
Bible must be integrated into the very core of their existence so as to exercise
from there its life-changing influence. They must consistently offer most
fervent prayers each for their own salvation and for that of the world.
Godliness must come to fruition, to be demonstrated in each thought, in all
communications and in the whole of life. While each makes his contribution to
change no one must for one second doubt that the triune God is Himself the
One Who supports all that is done in His name. === Thesis (Ph.D. (Missiology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.
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