{"id":561385,"date":"2025-11-10T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/561385\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:44:14","slug":"mass-worship-celebration-event-with-500-evangelical-churches-held-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/561385\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass worship celebration event with 500 evangelical churches held in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CNEFFrench evangelicals united across the country in celebration of the gospel\u00a0kahtwancros<\/p>\n

Nearly 500 evangelical churches organised 85 united worship gatherings simultaneously across France last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The widely supported event led by Conseil National des \u00c9vang\u00e9liques de France (CNEF), the leading evangelical alliance in France, aimed for a nationwide day of celebrating the gospel on Oct. 5.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Lille to Marseille, Bordeaux to Strasbourg, over 70,000 believers came together to lift up the name of Jesus,\u201d reported the Impact France newsletter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether they prayed for unity within the French church, justice, peace, and for our persecuted Christian brothers and sisters around the world. What an amazing testimony and witness to the trust that Christians have in Jesus, the one true King.\u201d<\/p>\n

CNEF on LinkedIn confirmed an \u201centhusiastic surge of unity\u201d from the 85 joint services, which \u201cfound a good echo\u201d in the secular press and radio stations. The evangelical alliance compared the sense of positivity with the criticism of French evangelicals in the Envoy\u00e9 sp\u00e9cial, a Thursday evening investigative television program hosted by French journalist and TV host Elise Lucet. CNEF previously denounced the national television program for portraying evangelical Christians as ultraconservative, homophobic and manipulative, as reported <\/a>by Christian Daily International.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike the program \u2018Envoy Special\u2019 a few days earlier,\u201d reported CNEF on LinkedIn about the celebration day, \u201cseveral journalists came to attend a Celebrations 2025 service. We thank them for this curious approach that seeks to understand and describe this faith in Jesus Christ that has brought us together in such numbers!<\/p>\n

The idea for the celebration started two years ago with CNEF planning the event. Three goals set out the vision for it, namely \u201cto demonstrate the unity of the evangelical Church, make the Gospel visible in French society, and strengthen partnerships among local churches, ministries, and mission organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese celebrations were intentionally interdenominational, breaking down barriers between churches and fostering a shared sense of mission and hope,\u201d added the Impact France report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CNEF hoped that beyond the celebration day itself, it would leverage long-term collaboration among churches.\u00a0 The hope is that local partnerships \u2014 forged through this shared experience \u2014 will lead to new joint initiatives in evangelism, discipleship, and social action throughout France, according to Impact France.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the country heads into the end of the year, we will probably be seeing more headlines regarding France\u2019s politics and unrest about pension reform. Join with us in praying that amidst this tension, the renewed sense of unity and purpose Christians have from this joyous month continues to shine as a light of hope.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a LinkedIn post, CNEF addressed the question of \u201cWhat\u2019s next?\u201d after the celebrations. In several cities, French evangelicals have asked when a similar celebratory event of the gospel will happen in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a joy to see this thirst for communion between Churches!\u201d shared CNEF. \u201cThese shared times allowed Christians from different communities, cultures and generations to come together around the essential: Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond this \u201cgreat weekend,\u201d CNEF shared thoughts on maintaining an inter-church dynamic throughout the year: in common worship, prayer, acts of solidarity serving cities and villages, in joint missionary projects and within the fraternity between both leaders and members of different churches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how we will continue to bear witness together to the love of Christ and to grow the unity of the body of Christ in France,\u201d CNEF added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French evangelicals united across the country in celebration of the gospel\u00a0kahtwancros Nearly 500 evangelical churches organised 85 united…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[17733,20363,179017,179019,2000,299,36,165059,179018,150862],"class_list":{"0":"post-561385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-celebration","9":"tag-church","10":"tag-cnef","11":"tag-envoy-special","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-gospel","16":"tag-impact-france","17":"tag-worship"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115525469882403728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}