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Witnessing Christ or Crisis Today………….. India 2010

The Earth is the Lord’s, and all that is in it. Psalm 24:1 (NRSV) Peace I leave with you: I my peace I give you. I do not give as the world give. Jn 14: 27 (NRSV) The centenary celebration of the 1910 Edinburgh International Mission Conference is just over with a global gathering in Edinburgh deliberating on the theme ‘Witnessing Christ Today.’ The Edinburgh 2010 critically evaluated different mission models to explore relevant praxis-oriented missiologies that enable the church to witness Christ meaningfully till the end of the World. When the entire Christian world reaffirms this commitment to witness Christ relevantly, the Christian community in India is contemplating on the meaning of relevant Christian witnessing in the midst of new crises that we confront every day in our country. An deeper engagement with the crises of our times, hence, is a pre-requisite for our missiological discourses on witnessing Christ relevantly today. Kashmir is literally burning, and in order to bring p