Hans Peter Royer

Hans Peter Royer (born April 24, 1962 in Ramsau am Dachstein ; † August 17, 2013 in the Dachstein Mountains ) was an Austrian mountain guide , evangelical preacher and director of a Bible school and a leisure center in Schladming .

Hans Peter Royer's party slip

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After completing his apprenticeship as a car mechanic, Royer worked for nine years as a state-certified cave and mountain guide and as a ski instructor. He was the deputy head of the international torchbearer movement and from 1991 until his death director of the "Tauernhof", a leisure center with an evangelical Bible school in the Austrian ski resort of Schladming ( Styria ). In the neighboring town of Ramsau am Dachstein he lived with his wife and three children.

He has traveled to numerous countries and has given lectures and sermons at conferences, meetings and in parishes. He saw himself as a conservative Christian who was faithful to the Bible and emphasized that being a Christian depends less on adherence to strict biblical rules than on holistic devotion to the risen Jesus Christ . The core of his sermons was the advice not to desperately want to become “holy” through one's own efforts, but to leave the “ management ” to God himself . Royer wrote several books. As a pedagogue , Royer was able to further expand the connection between sport and faith through his work as a mountain guide and ski instructor and develop a special form of experiential education ; the so-called "Christ-centered experiential education" ("Upward Bound" as a further development of " Outward Bound "). Royer introduced this method in the book “Only he who lets go is held”. Together with the sports chaplain Jörg Walcher, he published the “Winter Sports Bible” for the 2013 World Ski Championships .

Royer died on August 17, 2013 in a paragliding accident.

Publications

• Only those who let go are held. Christ-centered experiential education. Hänssler Verlag , Holzgerlingen 2003
• After the amen, keep praying. On the road with Jesus in everyday life. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2004
• You have to die before you live, so that you live before you die! Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2006
• Dependence sets you free. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2006
• Wonder, thank you, love, live. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2007
• with Hannelore Royer: The father's love letter. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2009
• Darker than darkness - brighter than light. Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2010
• What my heart beats for (posthumously), SCM Hänssler, Holzgerlingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7751-5897-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Peter Royer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Hans Peter Royer  in the German Digital Library
• Private homepage of Hannelore & Hans Peter Royer
• Lectures by Hans Peter Royer on sermon-online.de
• Quotes from Hans Peter Royer
• Private page with information and lectures on Hans Peter Royer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Peter Royer: Speaker ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , allianzhaus.de, directory 2011.  
2. ↑ Editor of the "Wintersportbibel" 2013 ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , wintersportbibel.com 
3. ↑ Evangelist dies in a sports accident. idea, August 18, 2013, accessed August 18, 2013 .