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.  

Covid-19 exposes the stark inequalities of our world as it wreaks havoc most on those for whom lockdown means no money and no food and who don’t have access to the basics of clean water and soap let alone a garden or park.

As Christians in today’s culture, we need to have an awareness of the competing gods of digital Babylon. If we actively serve the gods of Europe, we may in the end find ourselves not worshiping the God of the Universe.

As evangelicals in Europe, we need intentionally to integrate media engagement in our discipleship and mission strategies and practices.

Discipleship would have us know and learn with our minds, hearts and souls.

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.

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.

The response of the European Churches to climate change, as with all environmental issues, has been patchy, but there are signs that this is beginning to change.

Some of the ways that evangelical organisations are taking up the global challenge of implementing creation care as a mission task.