---
title: 'The New Opportunity of the Church'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Elliott Speer'
date: 1919-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Missions (General)'
- 'Social Issues'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 6'
- 'Psalms 46'
- 'Matthew 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/speer-1919-the-new-opportunity-of-the-church
---

# The New Opportunity of the Church

Speer urges the post‑WWI Church to resist moral laxity and disunity, embrace loyal service in peace, and lead bold social reconstruction to secure a just, lasting peace.

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