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Communicating the Gospel in Slovakia

Todd Patterson — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:13:19 +0000

This is a continuation of the series on religion in Slovakia. I’ve been trying to get underneath the statistics on religion in order to understand what they mean in terms of living and working as a missionary in Slovakia. In this post I compare two different ways of communicating the gospel in the context [...]

Counting Christians* to Reach the Lost*

Todd Patterson — Thu, 13 May 2010 13:17:59 +0000

Catholic, Lutheran, Evangelical, …. What we want to know is…how many believers are there in Slovakia? Or, better yet, to what degree is Slovakia a reached country?

As Mark Twain always used to say, “There are lies, d*** lies, and statistics.”

I’m sure you’ve seen Operation World or other publications and websites that give [...]

Evangelicalism on Slovakia’s Cultural Radar

Todd Patterson — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:35:56 +0000

In the first post of this series I noted that according to the 2001 census in Slovakia, just 0.2% of the people in Slovakia claim to be a part of an evangelical denomination. That’s a really small number when you compare it to the 25-30% that claim to be evangelical in the United States. [...]

Slovak Religion

Todd Patterson — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:44:11 +0000

This is the first in a series of posts on religion in Slovakia. I’ll be looking at it from the perspective of statistics and what those statistics mean for everyday ministry on the ground.

Last week I was talking with a friend of mine who recently visited Estonia, where Lutheranism was officially established as [...]