The messages given at the thirteenth Inter-Varsity Student Missions Convention were difficult to hear. They asked us to give up our self-centeredness, our ethnocentrism, our comfortable lives and to go out into the world so that "at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow ... and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" (Phil. 2:10-11). The speakers at Urbana 81 came from cities and rural…