A new narrative will be required as missionaries return to the new ‘normal’; narratives that define the shape of God’s mission in Europe.
The time of crisis is inevitably also a time of opportunity for reconciliation, mediation and a new start.
The church is God’s agent of reconciliation. It will seek for ways to reconcile the people with God and with one another and lead them into God’s kingdom.
Is the present pandemic simply God’s judgment to punish evil? Or does it, on the other hand, have nothing to do with God, because He can only show love?
There are steps we can take towards a “Protestant catholicity” while still remaining true to our particular beliefs.
I would like to offer some thoughts on the issue with the hope of stimulating further reflection by the church.
Fear of the coronavirus has also come to the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos (Greece), prompting several Christian organizations to take steps to protect the nearly 20,000 people crowded into the camp.
Italian pastors across many denominations continue to praise the Lord’s faithfulness in historically unifying them in prayer.
As the second-century Christian apologist Athenagoras states, early Christians were accused of three crimes: cannibalism, incest, and atheism.
The question “Do you believe in God” has been understood in three different ways since antiquity:
Our point of reference has to remain the Lord and not coronavirus. It’s necessary to affirm God’s control over the whole situation and the need to repent before Him.
For all who trust in Christ, there is real and eternal hope. In the storm, at some point, He will reveal his true glory to us.
In Haiti I have perceived, more than anywhere else, that physical battles are also spiritual battles, and that visible suffering is the result of the invisible tension between the world of darkness and the light of Christ.
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.
Inter-denominational contacts are on the rise in Russia.
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.
Seven Christian intellectuals ask the state to “respect, guarantee and protect freedom of thought”, and demand “the freedom for Cuban parents to choose their children education”.
As students head off to university, there are several ways we can be praying very specifically for them.
If difficulties arise, immature Christians soon disappear, because the last thing they are willing to do is endure difficulties.
The seed has the capacity to be stored and kept for a long time. However, if we decide to plant it, the event becomes a process.
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.
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