Looking back on history, and our own Christian heritage, I discovered times when God worked through the church to lift entire nations out of poverty. Before the Reformation, for example, the nations of northern Europe were as impoverished as the nations of Africa are today. After the Reformation, they began to prosper. This transformation didn’t come about because of wealth redistribution, enlightened human wisdom, or scientific or technical know-how. It happened because people began to open the Bible, and to understand reality, including their own identity and purpose, in new and
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