Discipleship would have us know and learn with our minds, hearts and souls.
Most European Christians have lived through the secularisation process and so they have been conditioned to see it as normal.
For Western European churches mission could be translated as: “Let’s go to other countries to serve”. However, for most Eastern European countries missiology is merely similar to theology.
It might be more helpful to talk about Europe in the plural, to accept that there are probably several different versions of Europe.
We need to stop offering a cheap Christianity to a generation that is tired of consumerism.
Women have always advanced God mission through history. They are used by God to continue doing this today.
The impact of demographic change on religious populations and how this could relate to the future of secularisation in Europe.
For Taylor, the loss of transcendence in a secular age is disastrous for human beings.
For a long time, the main thrust of politics with respect to religion was separation of Church and state. In our secularised multi-religious society, the question is: how can churches contribute to the common good in society?
A response to the Pew Research Center’s 2018 report, Being Christian in Europe.
To be strong in one area of religiosity does not guarantee that a person will be strong in other areas. Inconsistency may be evident in any one of the parameters of being Christian.
Joanne Appleton talks about nominalism with three attendees at the Lausanne Rome consultation: Tim Grass, Jaume Llenas and Olof Edsinger.
Twice-monthly social events are held for between 80-150 people, sometimes even more. The asylum seekers and refugees cook meals from their own countries, with occasional British cuisine.
Christian alienation is not, by definition, a negative consequence of being Christian or an unintentional aspect of Christian life.
When we meet them, we begin by showing them that there is a way of hope, because they all want to get out of their situation.
Part of our mission is house visits. We listen to them as they express concerns or worries, helping them to decipher letters, finances, doctor appointments. We often end by reading the Bible together, praying and singing to Jesus, which they love.
Churches and its Christians would do well to simply follow the example of Jesus Christ and his approach to power and to those isolated or excluded by it.
Our thinking, attitude, behavior with regard to Islam in Europe should be guided by God’s self-giving love manifested at the cross of Golgotha.
One of the main tasks of those involved in mission is to challenge the people to ask questions like “What does it mean to be a Christian?”
A recent EBF Mission Partnership conference in Georgia sought to ‘encourage, and inspire in ministry’ a group of indigenous church planters from Eastern Europe.
Are believers forming exclusively Romanian mono-cultural churches? Are they integrating into existing British churches? Are they joining in with multicultural churches that reflect Britain’s cultural and ethnic diversity?
There needs to be a radical and broad new level of commitment to common working.
Today’s multicultural European society seeks to integrate the foreigner yet often fails because of the differences that exist between cultures. We believe that this is a challenge that God is putting in front of the churches of today.
For the Muslim convert, the feeling of being at home includes the aspects of fellowship (“sharing things in common”), and growing into a sense of shared ownership as partners.
Putting to one side the hermeneutical questions around the identification of the EU with Bablyon, what is clear is that the demonization of the “other” inspires hatred not love.
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