Category: Ministry

Eglise Protestante Evangélique de Pontivy

Sunday saw the Durand family heading to Pontivy, about 80 km away, where Emmanuel was preaching in the local Evangelical church (France Mission). We had a great day.

The church is quite small, and that morning, the vast majority of people were English expats. I probably could have preached in English as a number of them had very little French. There was even a lady from Texas.

The Pastor was away, preaching in Guingamp.

We had lunch with his co-elder, Stephen, and his wife, Janine. They are an English expat couple and leave about 15 km from Pontivy in an old Farm house, lost in the Breton countryside. It was sunny and hot, very hot. It was 27°C in the shade at 13:30, and 32 when we left at 16:30. It was good to see some countryside and to visit another church in the area.

JWs visit

For the first time since we arrived 10 months ago, we had a visit from JWs. I had noticed a car parked in the street, outside our house, and when I saw four people coming out, I knew who they were. A couple knocked on our door and handed out a leaflet which I refused. We had a very quick talk which gave me the opportunity to ask them how many of them meet in their meeting place. There’s about 40-45, but they have other Halls in Lannion, Paimpol and St Brieuc. I told them explicitly that I did not wish to speak further with them today, but tried to remain polite so that they don’t write our name and address in their black book and avoid our house next time.

Sinned in a Literal Adam, Raised in a Literal Christ – The Gospel Coalition Blog

I was reading recently a magazine on origins in the magazine of a French Evangelical Denomination. It depressed me to see that all the articles without exception were supporting a theistic evolution viewpoint. The most worrying to me was the great confusion there seemed to be on who were Adam and Eve.

Although I don’t think I would follow him on Genesis 1, this article by Tim Keller is helpful in putting things back into perspective:

Sinned in a Literal Adam, Raised in a Literal Christ – The Gospel Coalition Blog.