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Hymn-books are non-essentials to the preaching of Jesus Christ.

— Mojola Agbebi

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Agbebi was arguing that African Christians did not need to reproduce European forms of worship in order to practise Christianity. He used hymn books as an example of practices that could legitimately differ between cultures.

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