Mainline churches in East Germany rediscover a sense of mission

Christianity Today 1 October 2009 ^ | 1 October 2009 | Susan Wunderink, Christianity Today

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from Christianity Today, 1 October 2009
A Lost Generation
Mainline churches in East Germany rediscover a sense of mission.
Susan Wunderink | posted 10/01/2009 10:02AM
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/october/12.11.html

Twenty years after.... But some formerly liberal church leaders have a newfound interest in evangelism.... ....

Uwe Siemon-Netto, director of the Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life, says the German Protestant church recognized the fall of the Berlin Wall as a miracle. "Then," he said, "it flipped back and returned to its goofy liberal ways."

To many East Germans, the social gospel preached from many Protestant pulpits sounded very much like a successor to Nazi and Soviet propaganda, Siemon-Netto said. It failed to draw people.

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"...the German Protestant church recognized the fall of the Berlin Wall as a miracle. "Then," he said, "it flipped back and returned to its goofy liberal ways."

To many East Germans, the social gospel preached from many Protestant pulpits sounded very much like a successor to Nazi and Soviet propaganda, Siemon-Netto said. It failed to draw people."

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I have a friend in Heidelberg that is working to begin the restoration of the reformed church there.

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Europe is a mission field indeed.

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Mainline churches in East Germany rediscover a sense of mission

I saw the front doors of Lutheran Churches with locks on them in East Germany in 1983.

We knew a family, the mom, dad, two teen age kids and the grandmother who lived in a two room flat who were Lutherans and were found out to be (believers) Their kids were not allowed to attend Univ.

Knowing what it was like having a Lutheran Pastor for a father in East Germany growing up Chancellor Angela Merkel
I hope could nudge this along in some way