Changing
Society
a) Through the Church, Christian young people and pastors should be educated
regarding Christin distinctiveness and worldview.
b) The Church should emphasize by teaching and practice, the responsibility
and role of the Church and Christians in the society and world.
c) The Church should recognize the need to respond to, be relevant to and
interact with changing social situations (eg. ethnic conflicts).
d) Christian leaders and teachers should get Christians involved in tackling
structural evils by gathering inter-denominational forums where awareness
is raised and issues are discussed. Leaders and government officials, etc.
should be invited to give their perspective. e) The Church should encourage
Christians to embrace active political participation and leadership.
Communalism
a) The Church should promote constructive dialogue and interaction with different
religious groups on social and religious issues.
b) The Church should conduct seminars / worshops on communal harmony for the
laity.
c) Christians should be trained to conscientize the society/their neighbours
for communal harmony by making full use of the media, i.e. writing articles
in the newspapers, producing skits, films, etc.
d) In communally senstive areas, special care should be taken in the choice
of evangelistic methods. Aggressive and offensive methods of evangelism should
not be used.
Evagelization
and Church-Planting
a) National networks and co-ordinating bodies should work together in common
national programmes to avoid confusion and competition between missions /
Churches and to avoid duplication.
b) Consultations and seminars should be conducted for mainline Churches on
Church-planting to create awareness and educate the participants for involvement
in Church-lanting.
c) Emphasis should be given to training people for Church-planting ministry
and also to encouraging resource persons for the Church-planters.
