“When churches are dependent upon the care of foreign superintending missionaries any graces which the new Christian community shows can be ascribed to the influence of the foreigner and his direction. Only when the non-Christian population is face to face with a change in their neighbors and an ordered church life of their neighbors which can be ascribed to no white influence are they compelled to face the fact that they are in the presence of a spiritual force which is strange to them, in the presence of the Holy Ghost.”
–Roland Allen
(from the book THE SPONTANEOUS EXPANSION OF THE CHURCH AND THE CAUSES WHICH HINDER IT)