Wired News: African Christianity Boom Spills To The US

Fascinating. The bustling, bursting African church has targeted North America. In this case, a Nigerian community. May at least some of our theology shed its pale skin in the collision.

Here’s an excerpt:

“The United States, with its ever-expanding megachurches, influential evangelists and deep religiosity, seems an unlikely mission ground. But the Redeemed Church believes Christianity here has become a lifestyle, not a transforming way of life, and they feel obliged to rescue the people who brought them the faith in the first place.

“There is a vibrancy in Africa,” Akinkoye said. “We are offering that gift back to America.”

Wired News

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