Why Go to Africa? Why Do Cross Cultural Missions? Take 1
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Recently we found a thought-provoking answer to that question from no one less than an atheist: Matthew Parris in “As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God: Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem–the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset.” (see article)
It is indeed striking to hear an atheist call for a worldview shift from the African thought that breeds fear and oppression to Christianity: “Those who want Africa to walk tall amid 21st-century global competition must not kid themselves that providing the material means or even the knowhow that accompanies what we call development will make the change. A whole belief system must first be supplanted.”