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  • Mainline churches in East Germany rediscover a sense of mission

    11/13/2009 9:59:18 AM PST · by mbarker12474 · 4 replies · 300+ views
    Christianity Today 1 October 2009 ^ | 1 October 2009 | Susan Wunderink, Christianity Today
    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...