Sebastian Heck
Puritan Board Freshman
We are a team of Christians comitted to planting a confessional Presbyterian &Reformed church in post-Christian Germany. As you can see on our website (reformation2germany.wordpress.com), we are also thoroughly comitted to a "normal means of grace" philosophy of ministry.
The thing we are wrestling with is how to do cutting edge church planting in a postmodern, post-Christian environment (such as Western Europe, particularly Germany) with such an emphasis on the biblical, normal means of grace?
To put it bluntly, I am under the impression that some "normal means of grace" advocates in Presbyterian circles do well as pastors somewhere in the deep south of the U.S., or somewhere in a 400 year old church in Scotland. But what would they do in a university town in Germany? Just announce where and when the newest church in town is going to hold its first service and expect the Lord sovereignly to bring the masses into the church as he sees fit?
I am looking for your thoughts on a balance between a theologically driven, sovereignty-of-God based, normal means of grace approach to ministry in post-Christian Europe and a strong evangelistic church planting endeavor that actually does something and reaches someone.
Any thoughts?
The thing we are wrestling with is how to do cutting edge church planting in a postmodern, post-Christian environment (such as Western Europe, particularly Germany) with such an emphasis on the biblical, normal means of grace?
To put it bluntly, I am under the impression that some "normal means of grace" advocates in Presbyterian circles do well as pastors somewhere in the deep south of the U.S., or somewhere in a 400 year old church in Scotland. But what would they do in a university town in Germany? Just announce where and when the newest church in town is going to hold its first service and expect the Lord sovereignly to bring the masses into the church as he sees fit?
I am looking for your thoughts on a balance between a theologically driven, sovereignty-of-God based, normal means of grace approach to ministry in post-Christian Europe and a strong evangelistic church planting endeavor that actually does something and reaches someone.
Any thoughts?