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"it would be necessary to recognize the integrity of the Christian faith of the younger churches of the south." ¹(163)

"Having offered the faith to others, Western Christians must be prepared to live with the consequences of their passionate engagement with it; and with the reality that the outcome has often proved to be quite different from that which was anticipated." ²(163)

"two significant newer movements. The first of these is the migration of people from areas of church renewal and growth to areas of church decline."³ (164)

"This migratory movement may prove to be a key to preventing the disappearance of Christian faith in the West." ⁴(165)

"Just as migration is bringing non-Westerners into the West as never before, so Westerners are traveling and being exposed to the non-Western world on an unprecedented scale."⁵ (166)

believes that the impact of non-western Christianity could have an invigorating effect ⁶(166)

"it will be a surprise if the postmodern Western societies do not possess, besides their obvious decadence, features that will make possible a new, revealing, and energizing appropriation of the Gospel of Christ." ⁷(167)

"As David Smith has pointed out: “It should be possible for churches possessing two centuries of accumulated experience and expertise in cross-cultural missionary endeavour to discover faithful and creative ways of ensuring that Christ becomes a living option for a generation shaped by postmodern culture.”.... be the confidence that Christ is translatable... to be ready for the Gospel to be seen in a new light, to be willing to let the terms be set by the “receptor” community."⁸ (167)

1K Ross, '"Blessed Reflex": Mission as God's Spiral of Renewal', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27:4 (2003) , 162–168, 163.

2K Ross, '"Blessed Reflex": Mission as God's Spiral of Renewal', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27:4 (2003) , 162–168, 163.

3K Ross, '"Blessed Reflex": Mission as God's Spiral of Renewal', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27:4 (2003) , 162–168, 164.

4K Ross, '"Blessed Reflex": Mission as God's Spiral of Renewal', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27:4 (2003) , 162–168, 165.

5K Ross, '"Blessed Reflex": Mission as God's Spiral of Renewal', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27:4 (2003) , 162–168, 166.

6K Ross, '"Blessed Reflex": Mission as God's Spiral of Renewal', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27:4 (2003) , 162–168, 166.

7K Ross, '"Blessed Reflex": Mission as God's Spiral of Renewal', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27:4 (2003) , 162–168, 167.

8K Ross, '"Blessed Reflex": Mission as God's Spiral of Renewal', International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27:4 (2003) , 162–168, 167.