Show Two Fold Task Bountiful Meet Told The church in America today has a two-fold task of being midwife to the new age which is in the midst of a peaceful revolution and a pioneer in leading the country to recognize the of blacks and other according to the Robert V. president of the two-million-member United Church of a New Testament cited scriptural for the church to be servant to society and to assist and defend those processes of new birth which point to the new humanity revealed in Jesus He spoke last weekend at the annual meeting of the Intermountain Conference of the United Church of Christ at Bountiful MOSS pointed out that such radical social changes are taking place all over the world that historians and anthropologists are saying that humanity is moving from one culture to while other social scientists regard this as a time of IS a revolution going on in America Moss is a peaceful revolution but a very real because through dialogue and use of our democratic political processes we are bringing about significant social and economic While not all of the changes work he are aimed at improving the lot of those of us who have had the least opportunity for advancement and enjoyment of the good things in American MOSS contrasted the situation in America with the that are taking place The he marked by strife and civil are attempts at take-over by power hungry groups and They most often wind up with the imposition of repression and COMMENTING on American Moss warned that old myths which man lives by have worn They no longer The old myths have to do with reward and rugged individualism and The new society that is coming out of the current revolution needs the biblical symbols which point to to to the fulfillment of person-hood and to the intrinsic worth of human he theology is teaching us that it is not just minority persons who need to be liberated but all of We now clearly recognize that most of our efforts in racial justice have been paternalistic in the and that our greatest asset in approaching racial problems is our black The Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of the only agency in any predominately white denomination with a majority of been able to give the kind of leadership in racial justice which would never have been possible he ROLE of the church in any given period of history is in large part by the tides and currents of But its calling remains the to proclaim in word and deed the story of God's redemptive love for man as it is revealed in the narrative that begins with Exodus and continues through the first Easter the church lives out message will be determined by the Moss |