Total dependence swung to total independence. I think both the Eastern and the Western churches have matured to accept the validity of each other, with each other's strengths and weaknesses. I see them valuing each other's giftings. We now recognise that we need each other to survive, to perpetuate. I do not call this relationship a partnership.
Partnership is often an arrangement of convenience.
I would like to see more of a marriage relationship developing, which is not an arrangement of convenience but of mutual commitment and trust. It is a body relationship. I have seen Asians receiving Westerners, and I pray that Westerners will increasingly receive Asians. In Asia I have seen churches grow from nothingness into, perhaps, the biggest churches in the world today, such as Yonggi Cho's church and now the Hope of Bangkok, and several others such as the Full Gospel Assembly of Malaysia. I saw them when they were small, and now they've grown tremendously.