The Coming of the Third Church

There is far too much talk about crisis in the Church, far too little about the opportunities we are offered. In the course of history, opportunities have always outnumbered the tribulations; if it were not so, the Church would not have survived. The outstanding opportunity of the present time is the coming of a Church which I would like to call the 'Third Church', that is to say, the Church of the south as distinct from the Churches of east and west. This coming is an epoch-making event within the one Church of Christ. The pattern of the Church, once predominantly western, is breaking up before our eyes; a new migration of peoples now taking place seems to be ushering in a new Middle Ages, this time on a world scale and in the spirit of the third millennium.