Saturday night， Sunday morning: Singles and the church

ISBN: 9780060613808

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Foreword
by MARTIN E. MARTY??? The University of Chicago
\"Here am I??? send me??? send meF
That s the spirit.
That s the spirit Isaiah (6:8) finally caught in his temple vision.
It s the spirit that in the olden??? golden days of missionaries the
Christians used to sing about. It s the spirit that sent people to
Greenland s icy mountains??? India s coral strand??? and Afric s sunny
fountains. So they said or sang. It s the spirit that today s ministers
profess when they take vows of service??? and it s the spirit today s
congregations fess up to when asked to justify their existence.
\"Here am 1??? send me??? send me!\"
People are still sent??? and they go. They smuggle Bibles into the
Soviet Union and duck bullets in Uganda. Agents of Jesus Christ
endure prisons in Korea and Chile and the hazards of America s
inner cities and even its suburbs. There will be chaplains in com-
bat zones and communicable disease wards or reconcilei s in the
no man s lands of divorce courts and political conflict.
\"Here am I??? send me??? send reeF
Silence. There are zones??? or at least there is a zone??? that few are
prepared to enter. Maybe they find the language of the old mis-
sionary hymns quaint and corny??? but few of them will deny the
biblical impulse behind lines like: \"Loud and long the Master
calleth . . .\" The calling is not the problem for the church; the
answering is.