“Some of the states in northeast India, such as Nagaland, are held up as outstanding examples of the success of late- nineteenth- and early twentieth-century evangelism. Whole tribes were converted. The state is recorded to be around 90 percent Christian. Yet it has now become one of the most corrupt states in the Indian Union and is riddled with problems of gambling and drugs among the younger generation. Naga students at the Union Biblical Seminary, where I taught in the 198Os, would tell me this as proof of the fact that merely successful evangelism does not always result in lasting social transformation. Others will point with desperate and baffled sadness at the tragic irony of Rwanda—one of the most Christianized nations on earth and birthplace of the East African Revival….. The blood of tribalism, it was said, was thicker than the water of baptism.”
(“The Mission of God”, Christopher J,H. Wright. “Mission Frontiers”, September –October 2007, 29:5, Page 21)
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