I love the story of the sophisticated Englishman who visited Brazil and approached a tribal Indian of the Amazon region who was reading a Bible. The gentleman form London said, “Hah, in England we’ve outgrown that book.” The former cannibal looked up into the ashen face of that man and said, “Sir, had we out grown this book here, I would have eaten you yesterday!
There is power to change lives in the word of God!
Bailey Smith, Real Evangelism , p. 56.