Enthusiastic Christianity in an African Church

Abstract

Here, again, is brief documentation showing that the outward forms of Christian worship must partake of things which meet the fundamental religious needs of a people. Christians brought up in one tradition are still shocked, embarrassed, even disgusted by some of the manifestations of genuine spiritual worship which they witness among Christians of another culture. We would like to foster churches “in our own image” even though such churches may be sterile and lifeless. But ought we to insist that the African should imitate us in his worship of God any more than that we should imitate the African?