{"id":42761,"date":"2014-02-24T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ea_planting_gospel-centred_churches_in_europe\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T18:30:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T18:30:58","slug":"ea_planting_gospel-centred_churches_in_europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42761","title":{"rendered":"(EA) Planting gospel-centred churches in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ji\u00c5\u2122\u00c3\u00ad Unger, president of the European Evangelical Alliance and general secretary of the Czech Evangelical Alliance, said: &#8220;Church-planting initiatives across Europe \u201d\u201c particularly in the last two decades \u201d\u201c have become major sources of innovation in a lifestyle of mission. It has also helped people identify new and effective ways of reaching neighbours with the gospel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In UK, Germany, France, Ukraine, Baltic states and in many other countries church-planting has been instrumental in bringing back denominational vitality, in recruiting new leaders and making churches more visionary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a long way to go but we can be encouraged that it&#8217;s possible. We can reinvent ourselves and get a better understanding of how to relate to the people and communities around us in a fresh and authentic way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eauk.org\/church\/stories\/planting-gospel-centred-churches-in-europe.cfm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ji\u00c5\u2122\u00c3\u00ad Unger, president of the European Evangelical Alliance and general secretary of the Czech Evangelical Alliance, said: &#8220;Church-planting initiatives across Europe \u201d\u201c particularly in the last two decades \u201d\u201c have become major sources of innovation in a lifestyle of mission.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42761\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,200,419,440,154,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-evangelicals","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}