He founded FOCUS after his own experience: brought up in a Catholic family, he lost his faith in his teenage years — and rediscovered
it through Evangelical students at college, who helped him to encounter Christ in the Scriptures.
In 1975 there appeared in Germany a book entitled: The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto, on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World
Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German
Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread
through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncretism.
They point out that Christian
evangelical groups already have infiltrated the lives of America's children
through after - school religious programming in public schools, and they appear determined to give young
students a choice: Jesus or Satan.