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But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was.

When you walk away from God, and you walk away from Christ, you're basically uprooting the very foundations of being. So I don't think there is an easy way to do that. Even for the guy who becomes an atheist out of it, it's messy. It ain't pretty.

You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty.

Africa doesn't leap on you immediately; it seeps slowly, and it's incredibly important to be respectful and humble there.

To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.