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Resolutions
on Dedication for Our Times, 1961
Mennonite
Church (MC)
Since a new sense of urgency has gripped our hearts as we have
been together under God in this Conference,
Be it resolved
That we dedicate ourselves afresh to Christ so that:
1. as the possibility of nuclear war and the destruction of empires
hover over mankind, we may yield our lives to work with God in
the building of the kingdom of our Lord and His Christ,
2. as white dominance declines in our world, we may call men
into the fellowship of Christ in which the walls of partition
are broken down,
3. as the western world begins to reap its possible harvest of
judgment and the vengeance of the centuries rolls back upon the
unrepentant nations of the west, we may confess the selfish living
and unclean lips of the people among whom we dwell and pour out
our lives even unto death in loving Christian service to the
underprivileged peoples of the earth,
4. as rising nationalisms release new torrents of tension and
misunderstanding upon our world, we may call men into the fellowship
of divine love which embraces men of faith from every kindred,
tongue, tribe, and nation,
Be it further resolved
That in these perilous times the mood of our brotherhood should
not be defensive reaffirmation or retrenchment, but rather an
aggressive dedication to the world mission of the church; that
each of us in his day-to-day living seek to witness fervently
in word and deed to everyone in his personal world; and that
by sacrificial giving we may undergird our mission boards as
they enter new fields and expand new frontiers, not for selfish
purposes, but that Christ may be all and in all.
Adopted by the Thirty-Second Mennonite General Conference (MC),
August 22-25, 1961, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Proceedings,
pp.16-19
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