Mission from Africa

Mission from Africa is a long, well done piece from the NYT on a Pentecostal church from Africa which is growing very quickly in Africa and in America. The article highlights the growth and strength of African Christianity especially its Pentecostal variety. The church is the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

One paragraph:

In our interview, Adeboye began to talk, as he often does, about his own personal journey to salvation. It is a story with the usual Augustinian elements: prestige, women, booze. But Adeboye’s distinctive weakness, one he also glimpses in this society, was what he describes as an idolatrous reliance on reason. “It begins to give man the impression that man is the almighty, that man can do anything,” the pastor said. “He can go to the moon, go to Mars, perform operations with a laser beam without spilling blood. The problem, the way I see it, is that because of the advance of technology, science and investing, the Western world began to feel that they didn’t need God as much as before. Whereas in Africa, we need him. We know we need him to survive.”