{"id":147,"date":"2011-06-15T16:04:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/athompson\/?p=147"},"modified":"2011-06-15T16:11:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:11:34","slug":"3-churches-become-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/athompson\/2011\/06\/15\/3-churches-become-one\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Churches Become ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2011\/06\/GF-banner_blinkplats_med_ram-e1308146187205.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-149\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/88\/2011\/06\/GF-banner_blinkplats_med_ram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A New Church is Formed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure if one can really say a &#8220;new&#8221; church if formed, since the Church (big C) is always there regardless of denominational lines. \u00a0But nonetheless, the Swedish Baptist, the Swedish Methodist and the Swedish Covenant\/Mission Church have now formed a new denomination, or as they like to call it: \u00a0a new church.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hopes are that this church will help people to think differently about &#8220;church.&#8221; \u00a0The church in Sweden is dieing and forming this new church has its hopes set on start something new. \u00a0A new focus of reaching out, more waves of church planting, thinking &#8220;the ecumenical church&#8221; \u00a0rather than competition with other churches. \u00a0It is hopefully an awakening which will start a movement of more people in Sweden coming to faith and growing in their faith. \u00a0It is about making disciples who make disciples, which is good to hear&#8230;but is Sweden ready??? \u00a0Are people in these churches ready? \u00a0I believe much prayer is needed&#8230;but our hope is set on The LORD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the ECC&#8217;s article on the subject: \u00a0<a title=\"In Sweden, Three Denominations Become One\" href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/news\/2011\/06\/10\/in-sweden-three-denominations-become-one\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ECC-CovNewswire+%28%28ECC%29+%7C+Covenant+Newswire%29\">http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/news\/2011\/06\/10\/in-sweden-three-denominations-become-one\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ECC-CovNewswire+%28%28ECC%29+%7C+Covenant+Newswire%29<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/athompson?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=147&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A New Church is Formed &nbsp; I am not sure if one can really say a &#8220;new&#8221; church if formed, since the Church (big C) is always there regardless of denominational lines. \u00a0But nonetheless, the Swedish Baptist, the Swedish Methodist and the Swedish Covenant\/Mission Church have now formed a new denomination, or as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13685,13688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pre-church-planting","category-slider"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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