In a sense, 2005 is a kairos year for us to set up manageable and attainable strategies for halving world poverty by 2015.
As Christians we have an obligation to discern the signs of the time and respond candidly and boldly to this crisis with hope that God will turn it into a kairos for the church's mission in this century.
Without courage, intelligence and passion, the present kairos may pass.
When, after many attempts, Niebuhr failed to help him understand, he finally just said, ‘It's a kairos, Paulus.