Modern men live for the first time in a single global village. If God has some special word for our time, it cannot be restricted nationally, racially, culturally or even religiously. Politically we are all internationalists. Racially we have to accept the distinctive values of every ethnic group. In matters of faith, too, the false barriers between Christians and so-called heathens are being tom down.
Many social scientists report that the future belongs to the vast masses of Asia.
Europe has dramatically declined in influence since 1945. If the United States still represents the dominant military, economic and political power today, American foreign policy has increasingly shifted away from Europe and towards the Far East. There is always an intimate connection between man's earthly concerns and God's future plans, for He is the sovereign Lord of history. Religiously too the modern world has turned to the East for guidance and illumination. In a period when the established churches have suffered disastrous reverses, hundreds of thousands of people whose parents were Christians have been attracted to Asian faiths.