Jazz nights, WhatsApp, and ‘poverty of heart and spirit’: Church planting in a post-Christian city

Europe is often described as the world’s first post-Christian continent. In what was the cradle of Christendom, a tidal wave of secularisation has swept through from the post-war era onwards. But while mainline and established denominations – whether Catholic, Protestant or Orthodox - have if anything seen even more decline than we have here in Britain, there are some small signs of new life. A new breed of church planters are beavering away, trying to figure out how to bring to faith young adults who are two if not three generations post-Christendom. In this week’s show we’re speaking to three ministers trying to revive Christian faith in some of the hardest soil for the gospel on Earth. What do 20 and 30-something Europeans actually think about the church as it quickly recedes from its previous position of unquestioned cultural dominance? How can you re-intrigue folk with the Christian story when so much of it is both boringly familiar and totally irrelevant? And what might have to change about how we do church to build new communities of faith in places where Christianity has once reigned supreme but now collapsed? Guests this week: - Tim Vreugdenhil, CityKerk, Amsterdam - Rene Breuel, Hopera, Rome - Emmanuel Tsoutsas, Pangrati Evangelical Church, Athens Find out more about the Europe Collaboration here - https://www.europecollaboration.com/