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journey has taken me through a critique of "missions" in the narrow sense to the more inclusive My of the "mission" of the church in the modern world. Perhaps I can share this best by concept My Pilgrimage in Mission M. M. Thomas M. M. Thomas is a lay theologian of the Mar Thoma Church in India, and the authorof many theologicalstudiesin both English and Malayalam. He is widely known as an ecumenical statesman of the church, both in India and in the World Council of Churches, where he has served as chairman of the Central Committee. concentrating on some important turning points in my spiritual-theological pilgrimage
was through an evangelical spiritual experience as a first-year college student in Trivandrum in It that Jesus Christ became real to me as the bearer of divine forgiveness and gave my life, 1931-32 to adolescent urges, a principle of integration and a sense of direction. It led me to take awakened three Christian youth fellowships then active among students: seriously an informal fellowship group helping students to find new life in Christ, (1) the Youth Union, which was part of the Mar Thoma Church congregation, and (2) the parish Youth Union I became devoted to the church; and besides availing myself of its Through and sacramental resources, I joined a youth team in regular visits to a locality of low-caste liturgical residences to preach Christ to them, and during the vacationsI joined a student group visiting Hindu Mar Thoma parishes to share Christ with young people. the Student Christian Movement under the leadership of K. A. Mathew, through its Bible studies and The on inter-church relations and current national issues, and through student surveys of slum discussions and organizing games and literacy work among the street boys, was seeking to bring conditions an awareness of the ecumenical and social implications of the gospel. The emphasis in my students at that period was personal devotional life and personal evangelism. I remember that for a long life Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ was the basis of my daily self-examination; and books like time Weatherhead's Transforming Friendship, Brother Lawrence's Practice of the Presence of God, Leslie Alan H. McNeile's Self-Training in Meditation were resources for building my spirituality. The book and Hyde by Basil Miller impressed me so much that after my graduation in 1935 I organized the Praying informal fellowship of friends into an Interceding Fellowship and made my own Trivandrum 1935 I joined the Mar Thoma Church Ashram at Perumpavoor. There I was part-time teacher in the In and part-time engaged in organizing evangelistic activities of the ashram in the neighboring school I remember organizing an evangelistic team to a rubber estate to conduct evangelistic parishes. for the workers, and coming away with the feeling that the gospel of salvation we preached meetings not have much relevance to the oppressive conditions of work and housing in which the estate did lived. It raised many questions for me. This was also the time when my friend M. A. Thomas workers begun work as secretary of the Inter-Religious Student Fellowship. It opened for me contacts with had and non-student leaders of Hinduism and Islam and with their religious experiences. Debates students All-Kerala Conference to which Mahatma Gandhi sent a message asking that "all religions The be treated with equal respect" and warning that if there are "mental reservations there will represented no heart-fellowship" remains in memory. The "Aim and Basis" of the Inter-Religious Student be created a lot of discussion. Gandhian nonviolence also raised the social implications of Fellowship and the meaning of the cross for politics. M. A. Thomas and I spent hours together in religion about the truth and meaning of Christ in the inter-religious setting. discussion I (3) the interdenominational Student Christian Movement. intercessions elaborate and systematic. on interfaith relations were lively in the meetings of the fellowship.
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was the faith in a caring God Vain
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no God cares. And then thought I,
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is there in the land of desolation,
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