What kind of platform can be shared by the Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia and the Pentecostal evangelist and faith-healer Oral Roberts? From October 25 to November 4 there was one, by the grey banks of the Spree where it flows into East Berlin. In West Berlin’s Kongresshalle, under leaden North German fall skies, the World Congress on Evangelism assembled a colorful collection of delegates, observers, and press from religious bodies throughout the world, including at least a few Eastern European delegates. Convened by editor Carl F. H. Henry of Christianity Today, scholarly advocate of evangelical Protestantism, and Billy Graham, the Congress brought together over twelve hundred spiritual leaders in an atmosphere of tension, expectancy, and excitement. The West German government was trying to fall, but for the Congress participants all the tension and excitement were concentrated on the challenge of proclaiming the old Gospel into the final third of the twentieth century. The vast majority of them came from Protestant churches, although Eastern Orthodoxy and the Roman Catholic Church were also represented.
How Many Truths?
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