Now, there is a third thing, and that is "The Gospel Mission," which also takes the place of the local church as spiritually formed. Now, this is no denunciation of Gospel Missions, and I am not saying that Gospel Missions ought not to be. I am far, very far from saying that. I am, of course, not speaking now of those evangelistic missions that are held among the churches from time to time, but of that which has assumed the character of a permanent institution in numerous places. If then you take the Gospel Mission and have that as though it were everything that there is, and you remain satisfied just to go to the Gospel Mission where the Gospel is preached to the unsaved, and keep on the Gospel Mission line of things; well, you are simply dwarfing your own spiritual life. It is a thing which has in multitudes of cases just become a substitute for the spiritually formed local expression of Christ. Christ is much more than that, and you note that the people who live all their lives in the Gospel Mission are the people who are most terribly immature, spiritually ignorant and unenlightened.
Bueno, hay una tercera cuestión, y se trata de la misión de evangelismo , que también usurpa el lugar de la iglesia local formada espiritualmente. Ahora bien, no se trata de denunciar a las misiones de evangelismo, y no estoy diciendo que las misiones no debieran existir. Estoy muy, muy lejos de decir tal cosa. Naturalmente, no estoy hablando de esas misiones evangelísticas que se dan entre las iglesias de cuando en cuando, sino de aquello que ha asumido el carácter de institución permanente en diversos lugares. Así que si tomas la misión de evangelismo y la acoges como si fuera todo cuanto hay, y te quedas satisfecho con acudir a la misión de evangelismo donde el Evangelio es predicado a los inconversos, y te mantienes en la línea de las misiones... bueno, tan sencillo como que estás mermando tu propia vida espiritual.