Tübingen Offensive City Mission
The Tübinger Offensive Stadtmission (TOS) is an evangelical free church and an evangelical charismatic missionary organization .
history
The free-charismatic "Tübingen Offensive City Mission" emerged from a prayer group founded in 1986 in which Christians of various denominations met. In 1988 the "Tübinger Offensive Stadtmission eV" association was founded. After services were held for a few years without being connected to a church, a free church was established in 1990, today the TOS Parish of Tübingen . Further communities and social services were founded in Leipzig , Ueckermünde , Albstadt-Tailfingen and Halle (Saale) .
Since 1997, new branches of work have emerged in nine different countries through church planting and the establishment of orphanages in Latin America and rehabilitation centers for drug addicts and AIDS- infected people in Eastern Europe. Churches supervised by their own pastors exist in Bangor / Northern Ireland, Svetlagorsk / Belarus, Lima / Peru, La Paz / Bolivia and San Salvador de Jujuy / Argentina.
Theology and Church Spirituality
The spirituality of the "TOS community Tübingen" is shaped by neo-Pentecostal charisma. The Bible is the ultimate authority on questions of Christian doctrine, ethics and life practice.
March of Life
The “TOS Community of Tübingen” gave and continues to provide impulses for reconciliation between survivors of the Holocaust and the descendants of the perpetrators and helpers. The local community hosts a small exhibition on this topic. In April 2007, the TOS held a March of Life for the first time . This followed "the route of the death marches from the Swabian Alb to Dachau". Since 2009 these events have also been held internationally as the March of Remembrance . The motto of the march in 2012 was “A sign against modern anti-Semitism and for Israel”. The March of Life 2015 to the Dachau concentration camp met with criticism from the Evangelical Church and the regional association of the Jewish religious communities in Bavaria , and the memorial refused to support the organizers.
According to TOS, the March of Life has been an independent association since 2015. In 2011 and 2015 he was recognized by the Israeli Knesset for his special commitment to Holocaust survivors.
criticism
In the study Mission Gottesreich about the evangelical-charismatic faith movement in Germany, the "TOS Parish Tübingen" is mentioned several times. Above all, the hierarchical structure, which is characterized by duty and obedience, and the manner in which it casts out demons are criticized. In addition, the group has come into the field of vision of the responsible Weltanschauung commissioner of the regional church through reports from dropouts.
literature
- Ralf Gering, Nils Grübel, Claudia Haydt, Günter Kehrer , Istvan Keul, Frank Starz: "Giving a lot and a spirit"? A charismatic evangelical congregation in Tübingen . In: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft Volume 2, Issue 1, September 1994, pp. 23–47, doi : 10.1515 / 0020.23
- Oda Lambrecht and Christian Baars: Mission of God's Kingdom. Fundamentalist Christians in Germany . Ch. Links Verlag, 2nd edition 2009, ISBN 978-3-86153-512-6
Web links
- Official website of the municipality
- "Los Transformadores" initiative of the TOS
- “March of Life” by TOS
- Weltanschauung commissioner of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg: Brief overview of Christian church planting outside the church (PDF)
- Criteria for dealing with charismatic groups
- Winfried Müller: Tübinger Offensive City Mission (TOS) on Religio
Individual evidence
- ^ Material service of the EZW 6/1994, p. 176
- ↑ Annette Kick: Charismatic Pentecostal Movements (PDF file; 102 kB) Materials from the Weltanschauung representative of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg, as of August 2012
- ↑ March of Life. TOS, accessed August 28, 2012 .
- ↑ TOS March of Life 2007 (PDF file; 1.67 MB) Information on the satellite concentration camps of the Desert Company
- ^ March of Remembrance in over 50 cities in seven nations. TOS, archived from the original on August 24, 2012 ; Retrieved August 28, 2012 .
- ↑ March of Life. Retrieved August 28, 2012 .
- ↑ “March of Life” to Dachau , Pro christliches Medienmagazin, February 5, 2015
- ^ Helmut Zeller: March on Dachau , Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 10, 2015
- ↑ https://tos.info/ueber-uns (section "History")
- ↑ http://www.marschdeslebens.org/index.php?id=1251
- ↑ Oda Lambrecht and Christian Baars: Mission Gottesreich , Berlin 2009, pp. 25.32-35
- ↑ Annette Kick: Fundamentalism. "Faithful to the Bible" Christians in church, politics and society (PDF file; 87 kB) in: Parents' Initiative to Help Against Mental Dependence and Religious Extremism eV (Ed.): Religious-ideological-political fundamentalism and fanaticism. Munich, Pfaffenhofen 2007
- ↑ The file specified as the source ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. is no longer available on the website of the (Württemberg) Evangelical State Office for Weltanschauungsfragen , it has obviously been replaced by a PDF file (493 kB) in which the TOS is mentioned but without criticizing it.
