A different take on Europe Part 1
Date: Dec 16

With this week’s meeting of the EU Council of Ministers on December 15-16, Richard Tiplady of European Christian Mission provides an analysis of the state of the evangelical church and Christian mission in Europe.

Europe raises conflicting emotions and views in terms of both politics and mission. Most of us have a view of whether “ever closer union” with other European countries is a good thing or not (most British people believe ‘not’). When we talk or write about mission in Europe, some view this as unnecessary or as proselytism (converting Christians from one tradition to another), others see Europe as an apostate continent that is just too tough for most of us to consider working there as missionaries. But how can we generalise about a continent with 3,000 years of recorded history, almost 2,000 years of exposure to different forms of Christian tradition, hundreds of years of warfare and conflicts between (currently) 45 different countries comprising 650 million people, almost 20 million of whom are recent migrants from former colonies and other parts of the (non-European) world? The rest

A different take on Europe Part 2
here