Prayer-books and hymn-books, harmonium-dedications, pew constructions, surpliced choir, the white man’s style, the white man’s name, the white man’s dress, are so many non-essentials, so many props and crutches affecting the religious manhood of the Christian African.
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Agbebi was criticizing the assumption that African Christians needed to adopt European institutional and cultural forms in order to be fully Christian. He presented these practices as external forms rather than essential elements of Christian faith.