'In representing God's interest and action on behalf of humanity, the Bible describes and proclaims the story of God and its personal connection with the stories of the people of this world. The Bible makes for community by bringing pastoral attentiveness to bear on matters of family, home, society, and church. Far from dividing the world between winners and losers in a standardized market, the Bible offers limitless space for personal improvement and cultural variety. The Bible is not just about willfully putting a book between religion and us, but rather it is our assurance that we can know God as one who speaks and woos us personally, not as one who writes and threatens us anonymously.'
Lamin Sanneh, Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel beyond the West, p.116.
