One New Man in Christ
By Stephen Ng After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. Revelation 9:7 As theologians study World Christianity, it has become more obvious where the Church is heading to. Throughout history, study of missionary movement shows us that as the incarnation of Christ, which took place in the Jewish town of Bethlehem, later affected a group of fishermen, tax collectors and women, it is translated into a number of cultures and population demographics, beyond the confines of a chose ethnic group living in the land of Israel. The God who introduced Himself to Moses as ‘the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob’ became known not as Yehovah or Elohim, but as Kyrios and Theos to the Greek-speaking diaspora since the translation of the Old Testament into Greek (otherw