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> [“The church's primary purpose is not to make America more Christian, but to make American Christians less American and Rwandan Christians less Rwandan. We are no longer Rwandans or Americans, neither Hutu nor Tutsi. If we are in Christ, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-katongole/the-church-s-primary-purpose-is-not-to-make-america-more-christian/)

[Emmanuel Katongole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-katongole/)

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## More by Emmanuel Katongole

> [“The church's primary purpose is not to make America more Christian, but to make American Christians less American and Rwandan Christians less Rwandan. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-katongole/the-church-s-primary-purpose-is-not-to-make-america-more-christian/)

[Emmanuel Katongole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-katongole/)

> [“How long, O God, will we go on with a mock Christianity that takes the tribalism of our world for granted? How long, O…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-katongole/how-long-o-god-will-we-go-on-with-a-mock-christianity-that-takes-the/)

[Emmanuel Katongole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-katongole/)

> [“To live as the body of Christ in such a time as this is to reimagine what it means to remember and embody that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-katongole/to-live-as-the-body-of-christ-in-such-a-time-as-this-is-to-reimagine/)

[Emmanuel Katongole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-katongole/)

> [“We are called to be strange in the same way that the early Christian communities were strange to the world around them. The community…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-katongole/we-are-called-to-be-strange-in-the-same-way-that-the-early-christian/)

[Emmanuel Katongole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-katongole/)

> [“Because we are invited to be part of God's new creation now, we seek to embody the identity we have been given in Christ.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-katongole/because-we-are-invited-to-be-part-of-god-s-new-creation-now-we-seek/)

[Emmanuel Katongole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-katongole/)

> [“The story that the church has been telling for two thousand years is an outrageous tale about a man who was executed by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emmanuel-katongole/the-story-that-the-church-has-been-telling-for-two-thousand-years-is/)

[Emmanuel Katongole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emmanuel-katongole/)

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