Moving Out - David M. Howard

Moving Out - The Story of Student Initiative in World Missions
David M. Howard
1984, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship of the USA

I read this book some time ago, but couldn't really catch most of the parts of the book (not sure why, probably because of the structure of the language). But one statement stood up very strongly for me, so I'm only writing down this part.

Chapter 4: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions
Pg 47

"... the overwhelming majority of students to whom it was meaningful understood by it the responsibility of each generation to make the gospel known to all mankind in that generation. None other can repeat that eternal message to a particular generation. Its own members alone can do that. Understanding this, individual Christians recognised more keenly than ever the bearing of the Great Comission upon their own lives. The watchword, then, in the best sense was a call to obligation - not a prophecy of fact." - William R Hogg, Ecumenical Foundation