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This is Cassette 2 and features the keynote address given on the evening of the first day of the International Congress on World Evangelization. Doctor Billy Graham served as honorary chairman of the Congress and was selected to present the keynote address. Here now is Doctor Billy Graham

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speaking on the topic why Lausanne. The planning committee has invited participants from every possible nation. And nearly every evangelical denomination and parachurch organization in the world. Never before have so many representatives of so many evangelical Christian churches in so many nations and from so many tribal

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and language groups gathered to worship, pray, and plan together for world evangelization. Assembled here tonight are more responsible leaders from more growing national churches of Asia, Africa, and Latin America than have ever met before. Here in Lausanne tonight are participants from areas where the gospel had

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not even been preached a few decades ago. This Lausanne Congress is also significant because representatives are here from older churches which have been witnessing and evangelizing for centuries, and the younger churches of Africa, Asia, and Latin America who have taken up the torch and are now

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sending out missionaries to other nations as well, as we heard this afternoon. It's a new day for world evangelization, when the whole church can go to the whole world with the gospel. Almost 20% of you here tonight are engaged in cross-cultural overseas evangelism. Others of you

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represent every conceivable type of evangelistic effort within your own denomination and your own nation. The evangelistic cutting edge of the Church of Jesus Christ worldwide is here to seek how we can work together to fulfill Christ's last commission as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. Therefore,

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I have come to Lausanne with great hope. And expectation, and great spiritual need, asking God to enlarge my own vision, as I'm sure you have. Since we met in Berlin 8 years ago, tremendous developments have taken place in the religious world. We're all aware of the

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startling changes in the Roman Catholic world. I also detect a wistful longing on the part of a small but growing number of ecumenical leaders for a greater emphasis on Orthodox biblical theology. Then there's been the phenomenal charismatic movement that has swept much of the world in

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recent days. Then there's been the Jesus movement among young people in many countries. We met at a time, marked by signposts of both promise and danger. Promise in that God is at work in a remarkable way, as we saw depicted on the screen this afternoon. Never

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have so many people been so open to the gospel and so receptive to the gospel as they are today throughout the entire world. We heard this afternoon how in Asia, Africa, Latin America, that church is growing much faster than the population. In these days, God is

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giving his people an opportunity for worldwide witness. Perhaps our last chance. But with the promise, there are many dangers. As we meet here, world problems press upon us. We read the headlines this morning of what has been happening in Cyprus. Inflation is sweeping the world, but

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even worse, the world stands on the very brink of famine. Droughts, floods, and other calamities have destroyed or drastically diminished grain stocks, not only in Africa, but in the Philippines, India, Bangladesh. Pakistan, China, and other parts of the world. The world food shortage is seen in

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the dry and dusty countries of sandal shod farmers and nomads in exposed ribs and swollen bellies, and this should be a tremendous concern to this Congress in Lausanne. At the present time, We are seeing a dramatic shift in the world monetary situation. In 10 years 10

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years the Middle Eastern oil producing countries will totally dominate the entire international monetary market. By 1980, just six years from now, a Lebanese banker estimates these Middle Eastern countries will have nearly 2/3 of all the monetary reserves of the world. The wealth that the West has

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accumulated since World War II is draining away. The European Common Market will have a deficit of payments this year of $35 billion. All of this will most certainly affect those missionary agencies that are dependent on the West for financial support. Even smaller and underdeveloped countries are

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now announcing that they're working on the atomic bomb. Millions of people have a mood of deep pessimism tonight. Men's hearts are indeed failing them for fear, as our Lord taught. Absence of the fear of God, loss of moral absolutes, sin accepted and glorified, a breakdown in

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the home, disregard for authority. Lawlessness. Anxiety. Hatred and despair. Filthy language. These are signs of a culture in decay. In the West we are witnessing societies in trauma, shaken by war, scandals, inflation, surfeited and bored with materialism, turned off by a lifeless religion. Thousands are turning

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to perversion. Their cult with its Satan worship, mind control, astrology, and various ploys of the devil to lure men to turn them from the truth. We read about whole villages in the Soviet Union dominated by witches. It is right that we look for answers and solutions,

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but we must look in the right place and that place is the Lord Jesus Christ, who can bring spiritual revolution and liberation to the whole world. We meet at a time when the world longs for assurance, peace, hope, purpose. Isaiah the prophet centuries ago said, "And

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when they shall say unto you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and that mutter, should not a people seek after their God?" If ever there was such an hour, that hour is now. If ever there was such a moment for

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Lausanne, it is now. Most of us hold the view of scripture that teaches that as we approach the end of the age, things will get worse. That our Lord predicted in Matthew 24. False prophets, earthquakes, famines, wars, betrayals, moral permissiveness, persecution, apostasy would all precede his

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return. We know that the whole world is not going to be converted to Christ. The whole world is not going to become permanently peaceful. The whole world is not going to turn into a man-made utopia. But our Lord did promise : "And this gospel of the kingdom

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shall be preached in all the world for a witness. Unto all nations, then shall the end come." God is calling out a people, a community for his name. A Christian community in the midst of the ruins of man's sin, a bride from all races, tongues and

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nations for the coming bridegroom. It is an exciting and thrilling time to proclaim the gospel. If God had given me any age to choose, to live and witness, I would choose 1974. However, 64 years ago the delegates to the historic conference left Edinburgh with overwhelming optimism

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about the future of evangelism and missions and its impact on what was already being called the Christian century. They never dreamed that they were just 4 years from World War 1. They never dreamed that they were less than 30 years from World War II. But we

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here at this Congress have an unparalleled opportunity as the world may be standing on the very brink of Armageddon. Let us unite in proclaiming Jesus Christ as God and only Savior and persuading men to become His disciples at this fateful hour. It is my prayer that

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we will return from Lausanne to carry the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the whole world. As this Congress convenes, 4 basic presuppositions should undergird our labors, and this is a working Congress. Not a preaching congress, but a working Congress. These 4 foundation stones have

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guided our planning and should underlie everything we do in this Congress. First, this Congress stands in the tradition of many movements of evangelism throughout the history of the church. Michael Green will talk about the early church. In one of the papers that are going to be

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delivered. From the time of the early apostles to the present, evangelism has been the lifeblood of the church. When the spirit of God fell on the church at Pentecost, 120 believers soon became 3000. The 3000 soon became 5000. And so the fire of Christ spread throughout

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the Roman Empire, to Britain, France, Germany, Spain, into the Caucasus, into India, and to the islands of the sea in one century. This Congress is the most recent link in a long chain of evangelistic conferences stretching back into the last century which Lateret has called the

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great century of missionary advance. At that time, In the last century, The latter part of the last century, sparked by thousands of young people, the student volunteer movement set as its goal, the evangelization of the world in this generation. It is one of the tragedies of

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the missionary movement that today, over 60 years after Edinburgh, many Christians not only doubt that the goal is possible, but even questioned whether it is desirable. Doctor Arthur Johnston has done considerable research in this area in getting his doctorate from Strasbourg on this subject. And I

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along with him, have asked myself two questions. First, what characterized the great missionary and evangelistic movements of the last century? Second, how have these movements lost their zeal for evangelism? The missionary and evangelistic movements of the last century were based on the authority of the scriptures

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as the word of God. Because these people were biblically oriented, they had a definite view of salvation. They took seriously what the Bible says about man's lostness and his need of redemption. They also believed strongly in conversion. They were convinced that by the regenerating power of

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the Holy Spirit, men could be changed and society could be changed. They believed that evangelism was not an option, but an imperative. They were convinced that the primary mission of the church was to declare the good news of Jesus Christ. They were preoccupied with obedience to

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Christ's command, not with the dangers and the obstacles and the closed doors. But somehow, as time went on, some of these movements lost their zeal. Why? Evangelism always faces two dangers. First, there are external barriers to effective evangelism. Many of these we are going to be

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examining at this Congress. The dangers experienced, however, did not dampen the zeal of those people 64 years ago. True evangelism thrives on danger. But I believe that there's a greater danger. It comes from within. It is internal In missionary and evangelistic agencies and denominations and parachurch

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organizations as well. The reason that the great missionary movements of the 19th century were able to make a lasting impact on the world was because internally, they were strong. They knew what they believed, and they determined to declare it to the world. We need to pray

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for that kind of faith and urgency and dedication today. But they gradually lost their strength. How? In the 19th century, there was little disagreement about the message of evangelism. Holding to a high view of scripture, Christians preached the unique gospel of Christ to a lost humanity.

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In a series of conferences, not unlike this one, Christians sought to examine and reaffirm the evangelistic task of the church. One of those important conferences was convened in New York in 1900. At that conference, John R. Mott, who has been called the architect of the ecumenical

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movement, saw in the command of Christ, the responsibility of each generation to preach Christ to its own known and accessible world. The spoken message was to be supported by education, literacy programs, and medicine. The goal of the church, he said, was the conversion of souls and

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the edification of infant churches. 10 years later, the most historic conference on evangelism and missions of this century was held in Edinburgh, Scotland. But something happened after Edinburgh 1910. It was only a small cloud on the horizon, but it soon became a cyclone that swept the

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world. Even before Edinburgh, theological changes were suddenly infiltrating Christian youth movements, causing some to weaken their ties to the Orthodox faith as expressed in the Nicene Creed or the Apostles' Creed. The authority of evangelism began to shift from the scriptures to the organized church. They focused

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attention on the materialistic salvation of the community rather than the individual. This became known as the social gospel. Emphasis turned to man in this world, rather than in this world and the next world. It is my hope and prayer that Lausanne, 1974 will take us back

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theologically, though not politically and sociologically, to the visions and concepts of those great conferences in the early part of this century that grew largely out of the ministry of Dwight L. Moody. Since then, Parts of the world church have floundered. It has lost much of its

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vision and zeal of those days for three primary reasons. First, the loss of the authority of the message of the gospel. Second, the preoccupation with social and political problems. Third, the equal preoccupation with organizational unity. From Edinburgh came two major streams of the modern missionary movement.

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The first was the evangelical. Our second stream might be termed the ecumenical. In one important respect, however, New York and Edinburgh were prototypes of this 1974 Congress on World Evangelization. The delegates to New York and Edinburgh were chosen very largely from leaders in evangelism and mission.

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Leaders of churches as churches were not predominantly there. Hence, participants could single-mindedly consider world evangelization rather than everything the church ought to be doing. The succeeding world missionary gatherings at Jerusalem. Tambourum Mexico City and Bangkok were made up not only of evangelists and missionaries, but more

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and more of eminent leaders of the churches who were there in their capacity as churchmen, not as evangelists and missionaries. Delegates of the young churches in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. We're asking primarily at some of these conferences, how can the missionary movement help us in

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our social and political problems? The delegates did not necessarily always faithfully represent their more evangelical constituents at home. The majority at home were far more evangelically theologically oriented. Thus the spotlight gradually shifted from evangelism to social and political action. Finally, guidelines were drawn up, which called

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almost entirely for humanization. The reconciliation of man with man rather than man with God, which would lead to reconciliation of man with man. Now this is a Congress of world evangelization. We're enthusiastic about all the many things churches properly do, from worship to social concern. But

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our calling is to a specific sector of the church's responsibility, evangelism. We believe our point of view has not been adequately represented at some of the other world church gatherings. Therefore, we are meant to pray, talk, plan, and please God to advance the work of evangelism.

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This is a conference of evangelicals. The participants were asked to come because you are evangelical. And because you are concerned with evangelism and missions, and we here tonight stand firmly in the evangelical tradition of biblical faith. Secondly, this Congress convenes as one body obeying one lord

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facing one world with one task. The following words to the Ephesians could have been written specifically for the Lausanne Congress on evangelization. Let us listen to them. This is my text tonight. "In Christ Ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of

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Christ, for he is our peace. Who hath made both one and it broken down the middle wall of partition between us. For through him we both have access by one spirit unto the Father. Now, therefore, ye are no more foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the

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saints and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone." This Congress should not, should not stress older and younger churches. We see the church tonight as one church. Some churches are

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older, yes. Some are younger. Cultures and circumstances differ, but our mission is the same. Our spiritual resources are the same. One body, one Lord, one task. Salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ alone. Therefore, we come to the task of evangelism as one church, one body,

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one company of the redeemed, proclaiming the Lord Jesus Christ. We assemble not as strangers, but as members of the household of God, to find out more perfectly his will for evangelism at this critical moment of history. We hold that we're already one body. Already unified by

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the head, which is Christ. Whatever our cultural, racial or linguistic background, we are brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. Certainly we have some doctrinal differences. We're going to have some differences here. Some of you are not going to certainly agree with my talk. There are going

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to be some papers read that you won't agree with. You could bring the apostle Paul and have him stand here and speak and some people wouldn't like what he said. We're not going to find total agreement on everything. We have cultural differences. We have a lot

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of political differences. There are Americans here tonight, some are Republicans and some are Democrats. But we are one in the spirit. And we shout with one voice, Jesus alone save. We have one task to proclaim the message of salvation in Jesus Christ. In rich countries and

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in poor, among educated and uneducated, in freedom or oppression, we are determined to proclaim Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit that men may put their trust in Him as Savior. Follow him obediently and serve him in the fellowship of the church of which

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he is alone king and head. Here at Lausanne, let's make sure that evangelization is the one task which we are unitedly determined to do. Thirdly, this Congress convenes to reemphasize those biblical concepts which are essential to evangelism. There are at least 5 concepts that John

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Scott will deal with tomorrow morning. These 5 concepts, both the evangelical and the non-evangelical world, have been studying and debating during the past few years. Concepts which we believe to be essential to true evangelism, and which I expect we will reaffirm at this congress. Each of

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these is crucial, and yet each has been drastically reinterpreted or diluted in some parts of the organized church. Each though reexamined in the light of our times, must be reaffirmed by those committed to biblical evangelism. First, We are committed to the authority of scripture. We hold

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that the entire Bible is the infallible word of God. Many years ago, I had to accept this position by faith and it changed my ministry. Even though I myself cannot understand all that is in the Bible, it is taken by the Holy Spirit and made inerrant

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to my spirit. It is an everlasting body of revealed truth that is authoritative, and it demands faith and obedience today, as well as yesterday. If there is one thing that the history of the church should teach us in this century, it is the importance of a

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theology of evangelism derived from the holy scriptures. A second concept we expect to reaffirm is the lostness of man apart from Jesus Christ. The Bible portrays man as originally created by God for fellowship with him. However, sin intervened in the Garden of Eden. Man is now

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born, alienated from God. He has the seed of sin within him when he reaches the age of accountability, he deliberately sins. Without Jesus Christ, he is lost, and without hope in this world or the world to come. It was Jesus who spoke most pointedly about the

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reality of heaven and hell. Notice the terms Jesus used to describe the state of the lost, a place of wailing. A place of weeping, a furnace of fire, a place of torment, a place of outer darkness, a place of everlasting punishment, a place prepared for the

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devil and his angels. These descriptions of our Lord are terrible enough, Without even trying to interpret them. Our Lord brother said, "he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see the light, but the wrath of God

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abideth on him." Many years ago a man in England on his way to the gallows was being warned by an Anglican chaplain of the wrath to come. Unless he repented. He turned to the chaplain and said, "Chaplain, if I believe what you're telling me, I would

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crawl across England on broken glass to warn people to avoid that place." My fellow evangelists and missionaries, if men are lost, as Jesus clearly taught they were, then we have no greater priority than to lift up our saving Christ to them, as Moses did the brazen

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serpent in the wilderness. Thirdly, we expect to reaffirm at this Congress that salvation is by Jesus Christ alone. There's a narrowness to the gospel that is unpopular with the world today. The early apostles declared, neither is there salvation in any other, for there is no other

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name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Again, however, there has been a steady erosion of belief in this clear scriptural teaching. Some have openly taught that there are many ways to God and that ultimately no one is lost. The vast permissiveness of

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our day has left its stain on the church. Not Christ the one way according to God's revelation, but in many ways, according to one's culture and inclination we're told. To this Evangelicals must return a resounding no. There are, there may be many roads to Jesus Christ.

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But only one to God. And that is through the Lord Jesus Christ who said, "I am the way, the truth and the light. No man cometh to the Father but by me." When Sunder Singh was asked what the Christian faith had to offer India, that the

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other religions of India did not already possess, he thought a moment and replied, Jesus Christ. Fourthly, At this Congress, we expect to reaffirm that our witness must be by both word and deed. You cannot separate the two. Our lives, both individually and collectively must reflect clearly

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the truth we proclaim. Faith without works is dead. The source of salvation is grace. The ground of our salvation is the atonement at the cross. The means of our salvation is faith. The evidence of our salvation is work. Many today are debating the question of the

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proper place of social action in the overall program of the church. Much will be said at this Congress concerning this matter. Perhaps we will not find all the answers, but we here tonight reaffirm the fact that our words and our deeds must both reflect the gospel.

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Historically, evangelicals have changed society, influencing men everywhere in the battle against slavery and in the quest for social justice. We should be proud of that tradition. My own father-in-law went to China and spent 25 years to proclaim the gospel, but he was also a medical doctor.

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The gospel in one hand and good works in the other using medicine to win men to Christ. At the same time, we must squarely face the challenges of our age. We must be sensitive to human need wherever it's found. And I think tonight and in this

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Congress, we ought to, in all honesty, confess, and in many cases repent that we've not always been true to our traditions. At times we've not been consistent, or we failed to appreciate the implications of the truth we have proclaimed. It seems to me that we're always

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in danger of falling into at least 3 or 4 errors in social action. The first is to deny that we have any social responsibility as Christians. It's true that this is not our priority mission. However, it is equally true that scripture calls us time and again

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to do all in our power to alleviate human suffering and to correct injustice wherever it's found. The second era is to let social concern become our all-consuming mission. Jesus said, "what shall it profit a man if he regain the whole world and lose his own soul?" What

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if we developed a materialistic utopia which sinful man cannot do? In which every inhabitant on the planet would be fed, clothed, housed and cared for in every way. Men still would not find the purpose, the happiness, the meaning, the peace, and the joy that his heart

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craves for apart from God. This hopelessness has been articulated by many of our modern philosophers and playwrights. In a modern play, the playwright imagines everybody getting in a room and having everything that should satisfy a modern man, such as sex, food, drink, drugs, money, pleasure, entertainment,

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but nothing satisfies. The writer has no answer. He suggests that life has no significance, no coherence. No integrity, no meaning, and that there's no way out of the human dilemma. This comes from a man that himself was a millionaire. Some of the unhappiest men and women

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that I know today are millionaires apart from God. Giving a man everything in this world does not satisfy because there's an element deep in his spirit that only God can satisfy. And without a personal relationship with Christ man is lost in this world. Lost psychologically. Lost

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spiritually, lost philosophically. Lost in every way. But he's eternally lost in the next world. The rich man that Jesus told about was materially rich. But he was spiritually poor. God called him a fool. Man is a spiritual being. He's never satisfied or fulfilled until the soul

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is at peace with God. A third error is to identify the gospel with any particular political program or culture. I confess tonight this has been one of my own dangers and my own minutes. When I go out to preach the gospel now I go as an

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ambassador for the kingdom of God and not America. To tie the gospel to any political system, any secular program, or any society is dangerous and will only serve to divert the gospel. The gospel transcends the goals and methods. The gospel transcends the goals and methods of

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any political system or any society, however good it may be. Jesus touched on this in his conversation with Pilate. In answering Pilate, he said, "My kingdom is not of this world." Perhaps there's a 4th danger that I should mention. And that's the danger of trying to

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make all Christians act alike in every country, regardless of where God might have placed them. Some by the nature of your societies here tonight, have a little influence in your country. Others of you come from countries in which you have no influence. It's difficult because of

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the political system that you're in. We should each recognize the other's problems, dilemmas, or opportunities as the case may be. Our situations are radically different. For example, the social, cultural, and political problems are totally different for the Christian in Uganda then in Great Britain. Or for

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the Christians in Australia. Or the Christian in Czechoslovakia. But thank God, our spiritual resources are the same. Thus, these 4 things all point to the last concept which we must reaffirm at this Congress, the necessity of evangelism. In certain circles today, evangelism is spoken of as

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only the Christian presence. Almost total emphasis is placed on living a consistently moral life in one's environment. This is as it should be. It is good. But evangelism is much more than nonverbal. Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. After all, humanists,

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without any reference to God, can heal and feed and help. But this social presence is not gospel proclamation. The gospel is an announcement of the good news. But what good news? It is the thrilling proclamation that Jesus Christ, very God and very man, died for my

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sins on the cross, was buried and rose the 3rd day. The son has made full atonement for my sins. If I reach forth by faith to receive Christ as my personal savior, I am declared forgiven and justified by God, not through any merit of mind, but

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through the merits of Christ's shed blood. I rejoice in pardon for the past, the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit for the present, I am the living hope for the future. The great philosophical questions that I ask myself are answered. Where did I come from? Why

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am I here? Where am I going? And then I go on in grateful obedience by a life that should be rich in good works. Evangelism has been reinterpreted. In some circles, to mean primarily changing the structures of society in the direction of justice, righteousness, and peace.

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Industrial evangelism, for example, is held to be not bringing workers to redemptive faith in Christ, but improving the conditions under which they work. Now, don't get me wrong. We evangelicals should believe that improving working conditions is something each individual believer should be concerned about. But this

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is not primarily evangelism. Evangelicals should reject all such devaluation of the concept of the meaning of the evangel, but the evangelists can never ignore social injustice. I believe in political freedom, changing unjust political and social structures where needed and where possible. I believe in equal justice

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for all, but this is not strictly evangelism. This has often historically come as the fruit of missions and evangelism. In the early part of this century, Robert E. Spear, one of the key figures in the beginnings of the ecumenical movement, gave an address entitled 'The Supreme

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and Determining Aim'. One of the great missionary addresses of all time. One of the paragraphs out of his great speech, he said, quote, "We must not confuse the aim of foreign missions with the results of foreign missions. Wherever the gospel goes, it plants in the hearts

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of men forces that produce new lives. It plants among communities of men, forces that create new social combinations. It is impossible that human tyranny should live where Jesus Christ is king." He goes on to say, "It is a dangerous thing to charge ourselves openly before the

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world with the aim of reorganizing states and reconstructing societies. Missions are powerful to transform the face of society, he said, because they ignore the face of society and deal with the heart." End quote. In perspective, we may not all agree with all of that statement. Yet

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the basic truth is that, biblically, evangelism can mean nothing else than proclaiming Jesus Christ by presence, and by trusting the Holy Spirit to use the scriptures to persuade men to become His disciples and responsible members of his church. Furthermore, evangelism and the salvation of souls is

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the vital mission of the church. The whole church must be mobilized to bring the whole gospel to the whole world. This is our calling. These are our orders. Thus, while we may discuss social and political problems, our priority for discussion here in Lausanne should be the

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evangelization of the world. Christians must regain the sense of direction, the feeling of urgency, and the depth of conviction which gave birth to that great slogan, the evangelization of the world in this generation. It is true that we live in different days from those of the

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19th century, and new days demand new methods. My evangelistic methods differ in many ways from those of Dwight L. Moody. Even at this hour, there are scores of different methods of evangelism being effectively used, more effective than the evangelistic methods we may be using. In fact,

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the method we use may be among the most least effective. But no evangelism is effective unless it is personal evangelism. But there are some things that never change. The word of God never changes. Christ never changes. The power of the Spirit to transform lives never changes.

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The demand for obedience never changes. Our commission to go to the ends of the world never changes. And Christ promised to be with us till the end never changes. In other words, the message we proclaim never changes. Only methods change, situations change, circumstances change, political situations

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change, social situations, but the message is the same in every generation and in every country. This task of the Congress, therefore, is to relate the changeless gospel to a changing world. Fourthly, this Congress convenes to consider honestly and carefully both the unevangelized world and the church's

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resources to evangelize the world. Here we will study together such questions as where are the unevangelized? When can a person, a village, a city, a country said to be evangelized? In the last quarter of the 20th century, the unevangelized world consists of two main blocks of

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people. First, the superficially Christian population. You ask them, are they, what religion do they have in Europe or America, they say we're Christians, but they don't personally know Christ. Secondly, there's the unevangelized world, and that consists of large unreached populations that can be found almost everywhere.

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Many of you are not aware that right here in Europe, there are thousands and even millions of Turks, Algerians, Vietnamese, that are largely unreached. They need someone to go to them with the gospel. There are 10s of millions that live in parts of the world that

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never hear the gospel as we heard this afternoon. The only way to reach many of those areas is by radio, and certainly we should be praying in this Congress that God will show us how to reach these unreached areas. This Congress will be shocked to learn

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of the magnitude of the unreached populations on every continent. The planning committee of this Congress asked the school of Missions at Fuller Theological Seminary and Mission's Advanced Research Center at World Vision, to assemble hard facts on unreached populations. The two agencies appointed a work team, which

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enlisted the aid of hundreds around the world to gather data. I'll not anticipate their report, but their report is sobering indeed. We must evangelize in the world this data reveals. Our evangelistic strategy should be formed in view of this actual situation. While some people can be

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evangelized by their neighbors, others and greater multitudes are cut off from their Christian neighbors by deep linguistic, political and cultural chasms. They will never be reached by near neighbor evangelism that we hear so much about today. To build our evangelistic policies on near neighbor evangelism alone

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is to shut out at least 1 billion people from ever hearing the gospel. Churches of every land, therefore, should deliberately send out evangelists and missionaries to master other languages, learn other cultures, live in them perhaps for a life, and thus evangelize these multitudes. Thus we should

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reject the idea of a moratorium on the sending of missionaries. At the first meeting of the Executive Planning Committee for this Congress when the name was debated, it was decided to call it the International Congress on World Evangelization, not just evangelism. Many sincere Christians around the

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world are concerned with evangelism. They are diligent at evangelizing in their own communities and even in their own countries, but they do not see God's big picture of a world needs and the global responsibility that he has put before the church in His word. The Christians

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in Nigeria are not just to evangelize Nigeria. Now the Christians in Peru, the people of Peru. God's heartbeat is for the world. Christ commissioned us not only to make disciples in every nation, but to preach the gospel to every creature. In this connection I think we

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would do well to bear in mind that as we gather here in Lausanne, something that Bishop Dane reminded us of this afternoon. That we're going to be judged by the city of Lausanne by our attitude and our conduct in our daily individual contacts in this city.

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What a tragedy, if in the midst of our deliberations on how to reach the world for Christ, we should fail to evangelize by word in life, the very city in which we meet. It's my prayer that this Congress will make a great spiritual impact on this

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great city in Switzerland. But let us pray that here at Lausanne, God will help us to see the big picture of the whole world for which Christ died and for which he made us responsible to preach the gospel. Let our hearts echo those words we heard

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today. Oh earth, earth, earth, hear ye, the word of the Lord. When Wesley was shut off from preaching in the churches, he said the world will be my parish. William Carey used to keep a map of the world in his little cobbler shop. When I see

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the world from the moon. By television when those men were walking on the moon and they were showing us the earth I wanted to reach out and grab it for God. Get a picture of the whole world. And one of the things I believe that will

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come out of Lausanne will be an enlarged vision, as Bishop Dane reminded us. World evangelization means continued and increasing sendings of missionaries and evangelists from every church in every land to the unreached billions. The church must learn to utilize every technological and spiritual resource at its

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command for the spreading of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Finally, what do we hope will be accomplished at this Congress? Let me share 4 of my hopes with you. First, I would like to see the Congress frame a biblical declaration on evangelism. The time has come

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again for the evangelical world to speak with a strong, clear voice as to the biblical definition of evangelism. And I would call and challenge the World Council of Churches Assembly next year plan for Jakarta to study such a statement carefully and prayerfully with the idea of

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adopting more evangelical concepts of evangelism and missions. Secondly, I would like to see the church challenged to complete the task of world evangelization. Never has the church been stronger, more deeply entrenched in more countries, more able to do the job than today. Thirdly, I trust we

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can state what the relationship is between evangelism and social responsibility. Let us rejoice in social actions and yet insist that it alone is not evangelism and cannot be substituted for evangelism. This relationship disturbs many people throughout the world today. Perhaps Lausanne can help clarify. Fourthly, I

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hope that a new cornea or fellowship among evangelicals of all persuasions will be developed throughout the world. I hope they will develop here what I like to call the spirit of Lausanne. The time has come for evangelicals to move forward, to encourage, to challenge, and to

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bring hope to the world church. Evangelicals are rapidly gaining recognition and momentum. From this Congress can come a new love. A new fellowship. A new slogan. A new song. And most of all, a new commitment. I believe the Lord is saying to us, let's go forward

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together. In a worldwide fellowship in evangelism and missions In Bible translation. In literature distribution. In meeting world social needs. In evangelical theological training. And many other areas. Let's go forward together in fellowship. There are 2 basic needs. If we are to leave with the spirit of

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Lausanne. The first has to do with prayer. For the 10 days prior to Pentecost, the disciples continued with one accord in prayer and supplication. Their prayers were heard, the Spirit descended, the power abounded. Weak men became strong. Faithless men became faithful. Speechless men spoke the word

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with strength. And most glorious of all, sinners who listened became saints through faith in the risen Christ. It is my hope that there will be a tremendous emphasis on prayer during this congress. Evangelism is always in danger of succumbing to a humanistic activity. With all the

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emphasis on crowds. And organizations and our thrill and excitement about church growth, we should remember that Jesus often fled the crowds. In discussions of evangelism too little is often made of the spiritual life and prayer. It is foolish and vain to try to do God's work

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without God's power. But there is no way for Christians to have God's power except by prayer. I've learned in these years of evangelism, and we're celebrating this year 25 years in this type of evangelism. And I've learned one thing over and over again that no evangelism

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is successful unless it is bathed and saturated in prayer. The second need Their second need is to leave the Congress filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. Only a spirit-filled people shall finish the job of world evangelization. We will be here for 10 days, even

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as the disciples of our Lord carried for 10 days before Pentecost. They did this in obedience to the command of Jesus. Carry ye in Jerusalem until ye are endued with power from on high. The power they needed is the power we need tonight. There can be

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no adequate evangelism without the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who convicts of sin, righteousness, and judgment. It is the Holy Spirit who performs the work of regeneration. It is the Holy Spirit who indwells believers. It is the Holy Spirit who guides, teaches, instructs, and

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fills the new believer. The great communicator of the gospel is the Holy Spirit. When I stand up to preach the gospel I really never worry about communicating. If I preach the gospel faithfully, the Holy Spirit is there speaking to the hearts of people that he's already

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prepared. He uses ordinary people as instruments, but it is his work. God has gathered us here tonight at a time of great opportunity, but also at a time of unprecedented danger. The harvest is ripe. The harvest time only consists of a short time. I was born

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and reared on a farm. Harvest time. With just a short time. I believe it's harvest time throughout the world. And what we do in the harvest field, we must do with urgency, and we must do quickly. The night comes when no man can work. Storm clouds

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are gathering. Satan is marshaling his forces for his greatest attack in history. Ours is a cosmic struggle, both in the scene and the unseen world. Satan will do everything he can to discourage, divide, and defeat. As we gather to carry out the great commission of our

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Lord, let's don't give the devil an inch this week. But we follow the Son of God, who has already nullified the power of death, hell, and Satan. The final victory certain, Maranatha, the Lord is coming. That is our hope as we gather here tonight. Doctor Martin

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Luther King Senior, and Mrs. King were invited to be participants in this congress. In talking to him, he wasn't certain that he could come. He had a heavy schedule. He hadn't been feeling too well. And I stood a few months ago with him and, at the

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tomb of his son. Martin Luther Junior. We had a prayer together. And the night before he was assassinated, Doctor Martin Luther King spoke in Memphis about how he had climbed the mountain. And when he had scaled the heights of the mountain, He said that he was

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able to look over into the promised land. He said, my eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. You and I have climbed the mountains. We've climbed the mountain that separated us from the living God. We've scaled its height. We've looked into the

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promised land. Our eyes have seen the glory of God. He has given us the vision to see, the faith to believe, and the courage to act. But we have not yet entered the promised land. Down below us, Oo the plains of the world are the millions

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of men and women who do not know that there's even a mountain to climb. They do not know that there is a promised land to enter. They have not seen, believed, or acted. We who have seen the promised land must go down into the valley when

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Lausanna is over, to tell the multitude. There's a mountain to climb. And a promised land to enter. God has cut the pathway to the top of the mountain with the blood of his Son. God has prepared a promised land where there is no night, no sin,

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no suffering, no hunger, no sorrow, no tears, and no death. And to us has been given the task and the privilege to tell all men everywhere that if they follow the blood-stained trails of the Son of God, they will climb the mountain. They will see the

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promised land. They will know the glory of the coming of the Lord. While Lausanne? Why, Lausanne? Why Lausanne? That the earth May hear his voice. This has been a segment of the Congress on World Evangelization which was held the 16th to the 25th of

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July 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland. All material on this cassette is copyrighted in 1974 by worldwide publications and may not be reproduced in any form without their express permission. For further cassettes and other materials from the Congress, contact the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Post Office Box 4807

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