For too long evangelicals have treated the Bible as a book for the spiritual world and have failed to give it the freedom to inform the material world of everyday life and everyday “non-spiritual” decisions (see Figure 1-2). One of the challenges of Christian holism in development will be to release the Bible and the biblical narrative to speak to all phases of the process of human transformation. One of the best gifts that we have for the poor and the non-poor is the living word of God. We need to share it with them and let the living word speak for itself. More about this in the chapter on
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