From my window in the Curtis Hotel I look out on the Minneapolis Auditorium, where, as I write, the U. S. Congress on Evangelism is taking place. At the opening session, led by Billy Graham and Oswald Hoffmann, more than five thousand people responded enthusiastically.
Just a few hours ago Leighton Ford presented the first position paper, “The Church and Evangelism in a Day of Revolution.” He was roundly applauded because he raised the toughest questions and gave some biblical answers.
Everywhere the delegates are acknowledging their spiritual needs and are looking expectantly for the Holy Spirit to do a new thing in every heart. I hope to be able to report in the next issue of CHRISTIANITY TODAY that God has abundantly met this need and fulfilled all the hopes and answered all the prayers. If this happens the churches will be renewed, the Gospel preached, sinners saved, and the saints of God refreshed in their faith.
Whatever God may do in Minneapolis must be carried on by the faithful prayers of people that the fires lit there may burn on a thousand altars around America and the world in the days ahead.
