The history of modern colonialism is inside this history of modern Christianity, and we cannot escape its legacies; but we can end its trajectories by asking ourselves, Who are the people nearest me that the Spirit is pressing me to get to know, come to appreciate, and ultimately join? Such a question presses us beyond the still common way of embracing different people, either through assimilation or segregated toleration. These options make impossible an evangelism that follows the movement of the Spirit. The Spirit convinces through love, reveals God’s life through our lives joined to
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