The Christian Today website reports today (August 21, 2010) that the new principal of the International Christian College (ICC) in Britain believes that the end of Christendom is the biggest challenge facing the church in the West.
Richard Tiplady started his new position as principal of ICC this month, after serving as British Director of the European Christian Mission for six years.
He addressed the challenge of re-thinking the church in a post-Christendom and plural context this week. He said, "The biggest challenge we have to face in the West in our mission is to accept that Christendom is over."
Tiplady added, "We are no longer in a privileged position of power in society, and we do ourselves no service -- we do the Gospel no service -- to clamor to bring it back."
He continued, "The heartbeat of my Christian life and of my spirituality is mission...the Gospel is good news and I want to see more lives turned around."
Tiplady emphasized: "We need to be training Christian leaders who are going to be able to navigate that environment, able to lead God's people to be comfortable with it, and faithful to God in a new landscape."
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