

It is only when people live in an environment in which they are not required to exert supreme effort into just keeping alive that they seem to be able to selects ends besides those of mere physical survival.”

What are words, however sacred and powerful, in the presence of the grim facts of the daily struggle to survive? Any attempt to deal with this situation on a basis of values that disregard the struggle for survival appears to be in itself a compromise with life. How to do this is perhaps the greatest challenge that the religion of Jesus faces in modern life. Tremendous skill and power must be exercised to show the disinherited the awful results of the role of negative deception into which their lives have been cast. The great stretches of barren places in the soul must be revitalized, brought to life, before they can be challenged. “A profound piece of surgery has to take place in the very psyche of the disinherited before the great claim of the religion of Jesus can be presented.
