Finishing the Task in our Life Time?

"God has entrusted to us the continuation and the consummation of the task. Here is the thing that thrills me. We have come far closer to the finishing of this mission than any previous generation. We have done more in the last century and a half in worldwide evangelization than all the preceding centuries since the apostolic age. Our modern technology has provided printing, automobiles, aeroplanes, radios and many other methods of expediting our task of carrying the gospel into all the world. Previously unknown languages are being reduced to writing. The Word of Cod has now been rendered, in part at least, into over 1,700 languages or dialects, and the number is growing yearly. Here is the challenging fact. If God's people in the English-speaking world alone took this text seriously and responded to the challenge, we could finish the task of worldwide evangelization in our own generation and witness the Lord's return."

(The Gospel of the Kingdom" George E. Ladd. Perspectives on the world Christian Movement, 1999, William Carey Library, Pasadena California. pg 75)