Millard Fuller (1994) essay quoted by Jürgen
We had a big time down in Charlotte, North Carolina last year. We
decided to build an entire city block of houses – 14 houses in only 5 days. 14
houses in 5 days. We sent out a call. Folks came from 28 states, and 2
Canadian proviences. Former President Jimmy Carter and Roslyn joined us.
People came from 86 Charlotte churches – it was really something. But you
know what made me just about as proud as anything else? After we gathered
the first morning and had our devotionals, like we always do, we grabbed
our hammers and went to work. And there went an Episcopal priest, and the
most conservative Baptist preacher in Charlotte, to begin hammering
together. When you’re on the roof of a house, working for God, it don’t
matter if you’re a conservative or a liberal. All that matters is that you can
hit the nail on the head. Those two preachers didn’t know each other before
they started work on that house; now they’re good friends. That’s “the
theology of the hammer”.
Jürgen Liias talk, June 11, 1998