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Church Planting in the Secular West: Learning from the European Experience is unavailable, but you can change that!

An expert study of church planting in the most secular part of contemporary Europe   In this book Stefan Paas offers thoughtful analysis of reasons and motives for missionary church planting in Europe, and he explores successful and unsuccessful strategies in that post-Christian secularized context.   Drawing in part on his own involvement with planting two churches in the Netherlands, Paas...

obedience and holiness. This last point was crucial to Wesley. One of the criticisms of English Arminianism against the Calvinist doctrine of election was that it encouraged moral indifference (antinomianism).62 According to the Calvinists, the salvation or rejection of a sinner was entirely rooted in the hidden will of God. In Wesley’s view this doctrine did not leave any meaningful place for sanctification. Somehow it seemed a duty for Christians but it was hard to tell why. Against this Wesley