On the occasion of World Refugee Sunday 2020, which will be commemorated on 14 or 21 June 2020, EEA has launched a new edition of the position paper on refugees. Four years after the first publication of the paper, the situation of many refugees in and around Europe remains devastating and continues to present European politics with great challenges.
READ MOREIt is our pleasure to inform you that the English version of the Week of Prayer 2021 material is now available on our website.
The Week of Prayer 2021 will take place from 10-17 January 2021 under the theme “Bible engagement” and we would like to invite you to already start working with the date and the theme of the Week of Prayer.
The World Evangelical Alliance’s Evangelical Review of Theology is becoming a free online journal, starting with its August 2020 issue. WEA leaders and other prominent Christians will address issues of contemporary concern to the global body of Christ, in a style suitable for general readers.
READ MOREThe European Evangelical Alliance’s annual General Assembly 2020 was supposed to take place from 8-11 June in Albania under the theme “Journeying together – European Voice, Local Traction”. More details
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Jesus doesn’t just want us to hear him but also to do what he says! He calls those people wise. As the EEA we want to not only listen well to Jesus, but together, we want to put what we hear into practice, and we’d like to do it together. As Christians we believe that we have been given the Truth. Jesus is the Truth in person. We believe that Truth is liberating, for us as churches and NEAs and also for the world. This will be our topic for the next 6-months: Liberating Truth!
Read moreThe Sermon on the Mount, from where we get our House on the Rock parable, is deeply concerned with virtue. We spoke to Marvin Oxenham about virtue education, about what it can mean today, and about how to become good trees.
Read moreWe spoke to Nina Jankucić about how she ended up working with the Roma Networks, about the exciting things happening with this community, and about how with them she learns “being” and relationships: “And if there is no being and relationships, there is never going to be doing.”
Read moreLent is the season of life. In the northern hemisphere where we live it is also the time of spring. After the long, dark and cold wintertime nature begins to revive: the grass starts to grow, the snowdrops disappear and make room for hyacinths and daffodils to bloom, the trees turn green again, birds build their nests, and the first ducklings are already swimming around in the ponds. Migratory birds are returning from warmer areas, the days are getting longer again, and temperatures are rising.
Read moreWe spoke to Manuel Rainho, General Secretary of the Portuguese IFES movement, about the sermon, one of our main mediums of listening to Jesus’ words, and a focal point in our churches, communities and individual lives.
Read moreWe spoke to Mike MacDonald at the Bible Project, about how to read “these words” – this mega book that is the Bible, how important context is and literary genre – we can’t read poetry the same way we read prophecy! And when Jesus says “hear these words of mine” he is not only talking about words on a page, but about a unified narrative that points to him.
Read moreWe spoke to Usha Reifsnider, a Missions specialist, about listening to others: how difficult this is in general, and even how as Christians we are pretty rubbish at listening because we are the ones who want to be speaking. But we become better listeners when we have been listened to.
Read moreOur theme for the first half of 2023 is “House on the Rock”, and we asked Georg Schuster, Managing Director of Uplink Academy, to comment on this in the context of media and communication.
In Jesus’ parable, we must both hear and put into practice, to be able to build on the Rock. Georg pointed out that listening was an elemental principle in good communication: we must hear what people are thinking and saying before rushing in to share the Gospel, answering questions people are not even asking. And words are not the only thing that counts: people want to see us live out our faith.
Another principle in communication is to face outside perceptions, and here we accept that outside opinions about Christians are not positive. The Church is no longer seen as something relevant to society. It has largely forgotten how to listen and talk to the world. This led Georg and Mirjam to establish Uplink Academy, a media centre created to help Christians communicate better, be a space of encounter, and train those who see themselves as media missionaries.
EEA’s overarching communications theme for the first six months of 2023 is extremely relevant in many ways. One of these areas, which ties directly to Jesus’ image of the “storms of life,” is the increasingly out-of-control phenomenon of global climate change. This is literally bringing us an increasing number of “storms” or as meteorologists would say: erratic weather events.
Read moreHow is the weather where you live? Not the physical weather, but the spiritual weather? Is it like a beautiful Spring Day, is there a storm building, or are you right in the middle of a storm? No matter what the weather, we know from experience that it will change. And no matter what the change or the challenge, we need a strong place to dwell, to stand and to be safe.
Our theme these next 6 months is: “A house on the rock,” from Matthew 7:24–27. In Jesus’ parable, there are a few things that Jesus presupposes but doesn’t mention. Four things that anyone who is planning to build a solid house needs to do. These four things are true if we build a physical house, and especially true when it’s our lives.