How readily we assume that the Church is the only channel
of divine action among men! Common sense tells us this
assumption is wrong--and nothing in the Bible supports such a
conclusion. Believing that God is the Lord of history, we
believe that God is at work now in the development of industry
and commerce throughout the world, in the experiments and
researches of the scientists, in the deliberations of the
United Nations, and in the course of events in Berlin and
Havana, in Moscow and Beijing, and Detroit. One might say,
then that He seems to be doing some very strange and
contradictory things! But, though we cannot claim to know
God's purpose in all this, we do believe that God acts in all
these circumstances. The revolutionary changes of our time are
not all a mistake: they are not taking place without God.
... Arthur Lichtenberger, The Day is at Hand [1964]
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