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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...

Christian mission will start with inviting people to become followers of Christ (III:214). Saved individuals will always remain the “prime result” of mission (III:244). These new Christians will subsequently be gathered in ecclesiolae.37 However, it would be wrong to stop here. According to Warneck, mission is not finished before a real people’s church (Volkskirche) has been formed (III:244). Eventually, Christianization of all social structures is the goal of Christian mission. This does not mean,