Why the Social Gospel Alone Won't Work

This is why the soical gospel alone won't work--

From Christianity Today magazine, the November 2011 issue:

"Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real The change is good...Those who want Africa to walk tall amid 21st-cenury global competition must not kid themselves that providing the material means or even the knowhow that accompanies what we call development wll make the change. A whole belief system must first be supplanted. And I'm afraid it has to be supplanted by another. Removing Christian evangelism from the African equation may leave the continent at the mercy of a malign fusion of Nike, the witch doctor, the mobile phone, and the machete."

_____Matthew Parris, former Member of the British Parliament