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Quote by Charles Nyamiti
What is new to the Africans is the fact that God's power is manifest in weakness.
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The sentence says that, for Africans, a new understanding is that God’s power can appear through weakness rather than strength or dominance. It presents weakness not as proof of failure, but as a setting in which divine power becomes visible. The statement makes this a broad claim about Africans as a group.
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