We also asserted, along with Newbigin, that North America is one of the toughest mission fields the church has attempted. Most Americans assume that we live in a society that is at least vestigially Christian. As in Kierkegaard’s Denmark, North America is a place where people have absorbed just enough Christianity to inoculate them against the contagion by the real thing. We believe that the church can be a major means of conversion, detoxification, and inculcation of the practices required to be Christian in a world that thinks it already is. When asked by the disbelieving world, “Do
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