Rudolf Westerheide

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Rudolf Westerheide (born December 6, 1960 in Oerlinghausen ) is a German Protestant theologian , pastor of the Lippische Landeskirche , author and for many years was the head of the German youth association “Decided for Christ” (EC) .

Life

Rudolf Westerheide was born the eighth of nine children. From 1980 he studied Protestant theology in Krelingen , between 1982 and 1984 in Marburg and then in Tübingen . Between 1986 and 1990 he was a student assistant at the Bodelschwingh Study House in Marburg . This was followed by the vicariate in Begatal and from 1992 after ordination a job as parish priest in Extertal-Almena .

From 1997, Westerheide was a consultant for the German Evangelical Alliance and, in addition to lecturing and preaching services, was also active in advising and training the local alliances as well as in leading the global and European Evangelical Alliance. From 2004 to 2018 he was the Federal Pastor of the German “Youth Association Decided for Christ”. Then he returned to the parish administration of the parish Langenholzhausen . of the Lippe regional church.

He is involved in various management bodies such as the administrative board of the German Bible Society , Section III and the steering committee Fiba (Family, Integration, Education and Poverty) of the Evangelical Work for Diakonie and Development , from 2006 to 2018 on the board of the Evangelical Gnadauer Community Association , as a member of the Federal Working Group of the Confession Movement No other gospel , at “Jesus Day” e. V. and the Christian Mentoring Network eV In addition, Westerheide is involved in the Rotary Club Lemgo-Sternberg and was its president in the 2016/17 election period. They see themselves "united by the will to help other people who are not at home on the sunny side of life".

Westerheide is the author of several books and many magazine articles. He is married to his wife Heidi, has three daughters and lives with his family in Lemgo .

Publications

  • Spiritual filling and spiritual gifts , Francke, Marburg an d. Lahn 1990, ISBN 978-3-88224-772-5 .
  • Kingdom of God - now or never ?! Theological guidelines for realizing the rule of God , Idea, Wetzlar 1991 DNB 910966052 .
  • History or faith: for the transmission and reliability of the Gospels , Francke, Marburg to d. Lahn 1992, ISBN 978-3-88224-897-5 .
  • The absolute click. Online with Jesus , Brendow, Moers 2000, ISBN 978-3-87067-830-2 .
  • ONE - How we as Christians can be credible , Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 978-3-417-24817-3 .
  • The Bible. 7 reasons why I read them , Neufeld Verlag, Schwarzenfeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-937896-32-8 .
  • Shampoo bottles, Plöpmob, small print: Encountering God in everyday life , Born-Verlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-87092-557-4 .
  • Thought. believed. lived. - Impulses for a faith with head, heart and hand , Born-Verlag, Kassel 2016, ISBN 978-3-87092-576-5 .
as a co-author

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Westerheide: Vita , linkedin.com, accessed on May 31, 2018.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Westerheide becomes Federal Pastor of the German EC Association ( Memento from May 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), ead.de, notification from March 16, 2004.
  3. ↑ Rudolf Westerheide: Vita , linkedin.com, accessed on March 16, 2019.
  4. ^ "Thinker before the Lord": EC Federal Pastor Westerheide adopted , idea.de, message from October 14, 2018.
  5. ^ Gnadauer Gemeinschaftverband: Personnel change on the board of the pietistic umbrella organization , idea.de, notification from February 19, 2018.
  6. ↑ Rudolf Westerheide: Brief Vita, p. 2.
  7. ^ Controversy in the confessional movement: No to the radicalization process , idea.de, article from May 18, 1998.
  8. ↑ Rudolf Westerheide: Kurzvita , neufeld-verlag.de, accessed on May 1, 2018.
  9. ^ Rudolf Westerheide: Mentor at the Christian Mentoring Network eV
  10. ↑ Tobias Schneider: Rotary Club supports German meetings for refugees lz.de, article from February 6, 2017.
  11. ↑ Rotary Club Lemgo-Sternberg: About us , lemgo-sternberg.rotary.de, accessed on May 6, 2018.
  12. ↑ Rudolf Westerheide: Brief Vita ( Memento from May 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Westerheide, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and federal pastor of the EC association
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Oerlinghausen