The Gospel is vastly more than an offer to men who care to accept it of a meaning for their personal lives. It is the declaration of God’s comic purpose by which the whole public history of mankind is sustained and overruled, and by which all men without exception will be judged. It is the invitation to be fellow workers with God in the fulfillment of that purpose through the atoning work of Christ and through the witness of the Holy Spirit. It calls men to commitment to a worldwide mission more daring and more far-reaching than that of Marxism. And it has - what Marxism lacks - a faith regarding the final consummation of God’s purpose in the power of which it is possible to find meaning for world history which does not make personal history meaningless, and meaning for personal history which does not make world history meaningless. Only an interpretation of the Gospel which puts in the centre God’s total purpose for human history is true to the Bible, and I am persuaded that only such an interpretation can meet the realities of a world in process of secularization - and I speak of a whole world, not merely that affluent fraction to which we belong, but equally the peoples struggling to achieve development and the peoples - more than a third of the whole - whose lives are shaped by the philosophy of Marxism.