AFWIS Joins Operation World In Prayer for the Federal Republic of Germany - Europe

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Jun 01: Germany

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Germany

Federal Republic of Germany

Europe

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Geography

Area: 357,042 sq km
Strategically placed in the centre of Europe and of the expanding EU.
Population: 82,056,775    Annual Growth: -0.09%
Capital: Berlin
Urbanites: 73.8%
HDI Rank: 22 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 82 (23% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: German. There are over 95 million German-speakers worldwide    Languages: 69 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	52,721,478	64.25	-0.9
Evangelicals	1,740,880	2.1	0.9

Prayercast

Challenges for Prayer

Unity is a great challenge facing believers. Besides the Protestant-Catholic and liberal-conservative divides, there is also long-standing suspicion between conservative evangelical and Pentecostal/charismatic groups. The increasing marginalization of Christians has helped weaken denominational boundaries. But both sides cooperating on the international level – such as in the Lausanne Movement and the WEA – has influenced Germany, and nationwide evangelistic campaigns such as ProChrist/JesusHouse have brought them together in action. Pray for genuine unity within diversity rather than insistence on uniformity, and pray that recent progress in cooperation may continue and expand.
Theological education was a major cause of decline in the national Protestant Church, because the unchallenged monopoly of state-endorsed academic training and the continued influence of higher criticism undermined confidence in God’s Word. For decades, liberal, neo-orthodox and other non-biblical theologians monopolized the degree-granting universities for the EKD, and evangelicals were marginalized. This is now changing as several strong evangelicals hold positions at prominent state faculties. Pray for more professors who openly proclaim the Truth in these institutions, and pray for greater numbers of evangelical students in what used to be spiritual morgues. Pray also for the many other Bible colleges, seminaries and training institutions that retain a closer adherence to biblical truth; pray that effective and practical ministry training might occur. Changes in European education policies now mean that evangelical institutions can get academic accreditation from the government; several have already done so.
     For an additional 12 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

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The Operation World book, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM provide far more information and fuel for prayer for the people of Germany.