Lastly, it is concluded that sin which offends God is worthy of punishment. The means by which a person avoids punishment is provided for by God in Christ. Christ has to be more than the lwa and saints, someone to whom the peasant can come and ask for help. In all the talk concerning the spirit world, bon dieu, lwa, and ancestors, there is a blatant omission of the relational concept of love. If the full force of the Gospel message is to truly impact a Haitian, the concept of love, as the motivating factor of God extending his grace on those who do not deserve it, must be grasped on some level. The Bible teaches that a person’s relationship with God should not be characterized by manipulation but by love. Coming from a background in voodoo that describes relations between people and the spirit world as one of enslavement, appeasement, and fear, this new life as a Christian is quite a shift. Faith in Christ and conversion allows the new convert to enjoy freedom as sons/ daughters of God (Galatians 4:6-7).
In the end, many Haitians will profess Christ and turn to him. However, in this repentance, there is a turning to Christ in the sense of “adding on to the deities who can be called upon for favors and blessings” rather than “turning away from evil and false past beliefs and practices.” If there is to be spiritual maturity, if there is to be a movement to entrust spiritual formation to indigenous pastors, then there must be increased awareness of sin and the personal responsibility each person has for their sin as Scripture reflects. Missionaries who are concerned with the qualitative value of their evangelistic work as much as the quantitative value will do well to bear these issues in mind.