Abdul Alhazred
11th June 2007, 10:05 AM
Danes no melancholy Hamlets now.
http://i10.tinypic.com/682n4ew.gif
Foreign Missionaries Find Fertile Ground in Europe (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061001267.html?hpid=topnews)
Singaporean Pastor Fires Up Staid Danes
COPENHAGEN -- The "Amens!" flew like popcorn in hot oil as 120 Christian worshipers clapped and danced and praised Jesus as if He'd just walked into the room. In a country where about 2 percent of the population attend church regularly and many churches draw barely enough worshipers to fill a single pew, the Sunday morning service at this old mission hall was one rocking celebration.
In the middle of all the keyboards, drums and hallelujahs, Stendor Johansen, a blond Danish sea captain built like a 180-pound ice cube, sang along and danced, as he said, like a Dane -- without moving.
"The Danish church is boring," said Johansen, 45, who left the state-run Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church three years ago and joined this high-octane interdenominational church run by a missionary pastor from Singapore. "I feel energized when I leave one of these services."
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Looks like the official theocracy is out of luck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Denmark
Note the lack of worshipers:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Holte_Kirke_2005.jpg/250px-Holte_Kirke_2005.jpg
http://i10.tinypic.com/682n4ew.gif
Foreign Missionaries Find Fertile Ground in Europe (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061001267.html?hpid=topnews)
Singaporean Pastor Fires Up Staid Danes
COPENHAGEN -- The "Amens!" flew like popcorn in hot oil as 120 Christian worshipers clapped and danced and praised Jesus as if He'd just walked into the room. In a country where about 2 percent of the population attend church regularly and many churches draw barely enough worshipers to fill a single pew, the Sunday morning service at this old mission hall was one rocking celebration.
In the middle of all the keyboards, drums and hallelujahs, Stendor Johansen, a blond Danish sea captain built like a 180-pound ice cube, sang along and danced, as he said, like a Dane -- without moving.
"The Danish church is boring," said Johansen, 45, who left the state-run Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church three years ago and joined this high-octane interdenominational church run by a missionary pastor from Singapore. "I feel energized when I leave one of these services."
...
Looks like the official theocracy is out of luck.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Denmark
Note the lack of worshipers:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Holte_Kirke_2005.jpg/250px-Holte_Kirke_2005.jpg