Center For Self development (CSD)

Useful info to keep in mind when you evangelize;

"Christianity at that time was an exception. I developed a sort of dislike for it and for a reason. In those days Christian missionaries used to stand in a corner near the high school and hold forth, pouring abuse on Hindus and their Gods. I could not endure this. I must have stood there only once but that was enough to dissuade me from repeating the experiment. About the same time, I heard of a well known Hindu having been converted to Christianity. It was the talk of the town that when he was baptized he had to eat beef and drink liquor, change his clothes and thenceforth go about in English costume including a hat. I also heard that the new convert had begun abusing the religion of his ancestors, their customs and their country. All these things created in me a dislike for Christianity." Mahatmah Ghandi

"The New Testament gave me comfort and boundless joy, as it came after the revulsion that parts of the Old Testament had given me. Today, supposing I was deprived of the Gita and forgot all its contents but had a copy of the Sermon on the Mount, I should derive the same joy from it as I do from the Gita" (Young India 22-12-27) - Mahatmah Ghandi

"What would not I have given to be able to bow my head before the living image of Christ crucified. I saw there at once that nations like individuals could only be made through the agony of the cross and in no other way. Joy comes not out of infliction of pain on others but out of pain voluntarily borne by oneself."- - Mahatmah Ghandi

More from Ghanadi
"What does Jesus mean to me? To me, he was one of the greatest teachers humanity has ever had."

"Jesus was the most active resister known perhaps to history. His was non-violence par excellence"

"Jesus expressed as no other could, the sprit and will of God.

"Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker,
but he who is generous to the needy honors him"
- Proverbs 14:31 ESV

True believers will be kept by God's power and will persevere as Christians until the end.

https://rootedafrica.net/1766-2/

The baptism of Bob Marley Over the years, Bob Marley's conversion back to Christianity has been swept under the carpet. This must be because his influence would have led to many more conversions, and the Rastafarian movement would have lost influence. Ironically, however, Rastarianism has always associated itself with the

https://rootedafrica.net/prayer-movements-and-the-local-church

Prayer movements and the local Church Prayer movements have come and gone. Studies indicate that the rise of these movements began in the 1980s, especially when Governments of Third World countries like Ghana introduced Bretton Woods interventions like the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs), which led to mass redundancy. Many middl