European Evangelical leaders were challenged to live out their “true identities” as “Christian nobodies” by becoming God’s catalysts for change.

“Christendom is dead, and thank God,” said Gordon Showell-Rogers, General Secretary of the European Evangelical Alliance, during the closing session of the joint EEA, European Evangelical Missionary Alliance (EEMA) and Hope for Europe conference, on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005. “Europe desperately needs God to visit us and for God’s people to live as God’s people.”

The four-day gathering in Tavira, Portugal focused on the theme, “Gospel Relevance in Europe Today,” and gave the continent’s top Evangelical leaders a chance to reflect, bond, pray, renew their faith, and share their stories.

“As a group of evangelical Christian leaders, we have benefited greatly from being together and thinking about our respective responsibilities in Europe,” said Showell-Rogers. “Our hope is that what’s happened this week might become strategic for the welfare of European society.”