Rachel

“Discipleship in Africa has to reckon with the Gospel’s answer to poverty and unemployment. Where there is total dependency on Western churches an indigenous holistic ministry will not flourish”
― Vernon E. Light, Transforming the Church in Africa:: A New Contextually-Relevant Discipleship Model

“A Gospel that does not speak to one’s total needs—e.g. need for work, education, food, housing, clothes, clean water, respect, and love—is surely no Gospel.”
― Vernon E. Light, Transforming the Church in Africa:: A New Contextually-Relevant Discipleship Model

“Those people knew a degree, a good job, a savings account, and comprehensive medical insurance were the safety net that wise people put in place before obeying God. Trusting God wasn’t anything so foolish as total dependency on him.”
― Alia Joy, Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn”
― Hannah Anderson, All That's Good: Recovering the Lost Art of Discernment