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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...

Not the salvation of sinners but God’s glory is the aim of mission (Eph. 3:10-11; cf. Rom. 11:32). So, mission is doxological in the end. According to Jongeneel, this emphasis brings nuance to later oppositions between church and kingdom, as for instance in the discussions between evangelicals and ecumenicals in our days. Both church planting and kingdom shalom are penultimate goals of mission. Only the glory of God is ultimate. 1.2.3. Gustav Warneck (1834-1910) The German Lutheran Gustav Warneck
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