Sweden’s Dire Need: New (Old) Churches

Sweden is in urgent need of new churches. When I write “new,” I mean local churches that are not connected to the established Free Church denominations (Evangelical Free Church, Ecumenia Church, Pentecostal Movement, etc.) There is some good to be found in these established denominations—of course there is. However, there are also profound systemic failures that will necessarily accompany any new church planting that they initiate. These systemic failures are varied but one of the most widespread and serious, indeed deadly, is prevailing pragmatism. An example of this pragmatism is that more or less all denominations have chosen to renegotiate...