Does a secularised Europe have any real basis for faith in the core values stemming from the story which made Europe Europe in the first place? 

Protestant churches which bless same-sex marriages miss “pastoral opportunity to help people discover God’s will”, says CNEF. Evangelicals are 70 per cent of practicing Protestants. 

Any term can become slippery through decades of use (or mis-use) and it is all too easy for a church with the ‘right’ name to have moved from the firm foundation of Scripture.

“Preaching a Christ with no power leads to a church with no message”, concluded the Spanish Evangelical Alliance at their annual meeting. Evangelical identity and ecumenism were the main topics under discussion.

Nowadays we are increasingly describing ourselves by the number and the profile of the people we are connected to. The level of popularity or acceptance we perceive to have in a particular circle of people easily becomes the foundation of our self-esteem.