Article February 13, 1971 Issue

Signs of the Times

Joseph McCulloch

The Times

The Reverend Joseph McCulloch St. Mary-le-Bow Cheapside, London in The Times London, England

From Calvary there flowed a spiritual power into human affairs which continues to change them, not by the violence of man's will but by the transforming of man's imagination. The passion of Jesus was that the life of the ego should die and be raised into the life of the person. Because the human situation is primarily an egocentric predicament, it cannot be radically changed by external force, only by the renewing of man's inner vision.

Paul embodied this essential teaching of Jesus in his exhortation to the Christians at Rome: "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." We shall not get the splinters out of the world's eye, unless our own insight is cleared of all illusion, not least of the presumption that we can force God's kingdom upon the world.

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