Article March 2, 1968 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from D. Elton Trueblood, R. W. A. West

From an interview with Dr. D. Elton Trueblood in Christianity Today Washington, District of Columbia [Reprinted by permission]

Question: On the university campuses many students seem to be ahead of their professors in a reaching for spiritual ideals and for religious reality. Is there any exhortation that you would present such young people in regard to their commitment to Christ and the opportunities for Christian penetration in the oncoming generation?

Answer: Yes. I think that the way they will "make a difference" is by binding themselves into small groups where they pray together and share together their way of penetrating the academic society around them. I believe that the strength will come in these small cells and that these can be established anywhere. I would like to get as many young people as possible to follow the practice of reading reverently, thoughtfully, humbly, and intellectually a passage of Scripture every day of their lives. I'd like to build up a hard core, a kind of Gideon's band, of people who accept such a discipline, and I believe that they would "make a difference" wherever they are.

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