E. Stanley Jones was one...
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E. Stanley Jones was one of the most powerful evangelists of his day. He spent most of his life in India, where his work earned him the title of "Risha" (saint). One of his friends was Mohandas K. Gandhi. The two men spent a good deal of time discussing their faiths, disagreeing in many respects, yet both "coming to the same conclusions." In fact, Jones says in his biography of Gandhi that he had shown him "more of the spirit of Christ than perhaps any other man in East or West," and that the assassination of Gandhi was "the greatest tragedy since the Son of God died on the cross." One of the things he says he learned from these conversations and his ministry in India was that the presentation of Christianity in India came bound in Western cultural domination. Our impact in India was dramatically small, considering the years and dollars and lives invested in mission there. Jones quotes Gandhi as saying, "If you Christians had lived your lives according to what you preached, all of India would be Christian by now. But your actions are so loud, we cannot hear your words." -- Herrmann
