“Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” – Luke 12:51-53

During my time in seminary, I became acquainted with a Christian brother who had migrated to the United States from the Republic of Sierra Leone. Even though he called Sierra Leone home, it was not the country of his birth. He was from the Republic of The Gambia.

He told me that, as a young man in The Gambia, he became exposed to the Christian faith through the missionaries. His whole family was Muslim. Upon hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ, he converted to Christianity.

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