Unless the Lord build the house... [1]

Ralph Martin

 

The Church and the New Pentecost

 

 

 

Contents

 

Church Renewal: On Sand or Rock? Christ Christian Community Christian Mission Causes of Confusion Toward a Solution

 

 

About This Book

 

In May, 1970, over 1600 people from all over the United States and Canada gathered in South Bend, Indiana, for the fourth Catholic Charismatic Renewal Convention. Ralph Martin, Notre Dame graduate, present coordinator of the Word of God community in Ann Arbor, Michigan, ad­dressed the gathering on "The State of the Church Today." This book, an expansion of that talk, is published in re­sponse to the reception his message received there.

Ralph Martin began his Christian service work shortly after the end of the Second Vatican Council. Here he relates how, in his six years' experience in working and travelling across the land, he found something vital missing at the heart of the renewal in the Church.

After probing the causes and effects of this inadequate renewal on the Christian life of the people and the institution, he proposes a startling remedy - the always radically new message of the gospel: the experience of a new Pentecost.

He is the editor of a monthly magazine re­porting on the worldwide charismatic renewal in the Church called New Covenant, P.O. Box 102, Main Street Station, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48107, U.S.A.[2]