Editorial May 7, 1990 ISSUE

To live fully

Michael D. Rissler

One million copies of the Bible had come off the press since a new publishing plant was established about four years ago in Nanking, China. This is one indication of the great hunger for the Bible message throughout the world: in China, Nigeria, Thailand, Cuba, Cambodia, to mention only a few of the countries reported on in an issue of the American Bible Society Record.

People continue to look back to the early Christian movement in order to go forward in their lives. This can seem surprising when so much is new and changing in the world. But the issues of New Testament Christianity are issues of justice, individual worth, preservation of community life, and healing, and these don't lose their significance.

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