Wolfgang Simson
Wolfgang Simson (* 1959 in Germany ) is a German evangelical theologian, church planter, publisher and author who advocates the kingdom of God and the house church model .
Life
Simson has Jewish, Hungarian and German roots. He worked as a taxi driver and as a social worker in Stuttgart . After adopting the Christian faith, he studied theology at the Free Evangelical Theological Academy in Riehen near Basel and graduated in 1987. There he later taught courses on mission and church growth and became assistant to the founder, rector and professor of the Old Testament Samuel R. Külling . He continued studying missiology and cultural anthropology in Belgium and the USA , where he also received his doctorate.
The academic world did not satisfy him, however, and he became a church planter, church leader, advisor, strategist, and researcher in evangelism , mission, revival movements, and growing house churches in 60 nations. He founded DAWN Europe and was a board member of the British Church Growth Association . He was also actively involved in the German Association for Community Development (AGGA), a member of the Lausanne movement in Germany. He worked as a publisher and gave the Friday Fax , Friday Fax 2.0 , the Starfish News and Mammon Fax out, these are bulletins to questions about evangelism, missions and church growth . So far he has written 12 books that have been translated into 20 languages.
Since 2015, Wolfgang Simson has been a managing co-partner of Simson Media GmbH in Kandern, through which he publishes family books and other products in order to point out the otherness of the Kingdom of God.
Teaching
Samson focuses on the Kingdom of God, where God rules and his righteousness is and is lived. Christianity has largely gone through a mistake and has become a religion without Christ and a cult without the gospel. Many churches are programmed to hold equal events, often led by clerics and consumed by listeners. That is why he propagates organic house churches, for which he has put forward 15 theses:
- Church is a way of life, not a series of religious meetings
- Change the religious system, not just renew content
- A third Reformation is needed, in which structures are also changed
- Away from church buildings and towards house churches
- A church has to be small to be able to grow
- No church can be led by one pastor alone
- The right parts are put together incorrectly
- God does not want to leave the church to bureaucratic clergy
- Moving away from the organized church and turning to organic Christianity
- Turning away from one's own and turning to the worship of God
- No longer bringing people to church, but bringing church to the people
- Rediscover the Lord's Supper as real food
- Away from denominational services and towards city-wide celebrations
- Discover a spirit that is also ready to suffer
- Church begins and lives at home with the family
Private
He is married to Mercy, they have three children and live in Kandern near Lörrach in southern Germany .
Fonts
As an author
- Belief in the new time. New Age - the other religion. ISBN 978-3-7655-3363-1
- How Christian is Germany? - A study of the situation of Christianity at the end of the second millennium. DAWN Europa (Ed.) Simson, Lörrach, 1993. ISBN 978-3-927534-24-7
- God's megatrends . C&P, 1995. ISBN 978-3-928093-45-3
- Houses that change the world. When church houses become house churches. Berief-Schwarz, 1999. ISBN 978-3-928093-12-5 (New subtitle 2005: Congregation as a large spiritual family. ISBN 978-3-928093-75-0 )
- The 1x1 of house churches. C&P, 2000. ISBN 978-3-86770-065-8
- With Thomas Giudici: The price of money. Paths to Financial Freedom . Brendow , Moers, 2005. ISBN 978-3-86506-053-2
- The House Church Book. Rediscover the Dynamic, Organic, Relational, Viral Community Jesus Started. BarnaBooks, 2009.
- With Riccardo Meusel: The harvest of the world. Strategies for full world mission. Verlag für Weltmission, 2010. ISBN 978-3-942501-00-2
As a publisher
- C. Peter Wagner : The healthy departure. How you can pray for the sick in your community and still stay healthy. Wolfgang Simson, Lörrach, 1989. ISBN 978-3-92753-400-1
- Raymond Bakke and Jim Hart: God in the City. The challenge of the modern city and the answer of Christianity. Wolfgang Simson, Lörrach, 1990. ISBN 978-3-92753-405-6
- Donald McGavran : Understanding Church Growth - A Basic Introduction to the Theology of Church Building , Wolfgang Simson, Lörrach, 1990, ISBN 978-3-92753-403-2 (Original: Understanding Church Growth , Eerdmans, Grand Rapids 1970).
- Jim Montgomery: Win an entire nation. The DAWN strategy: development - practice - perspective. Wolfgang Simson, Lörrach, 1990. ISBN 978-3-9275-3404-9
Web links
- Website of Wolfgang Simson ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- House Church Basics. 15 theses. Wolfgang Simson
- Sermons by Wolfgang Simson
- Simson Media
- Wolfgang Simson zu Hauskirchen on YouTube, November 2, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Samson: Services according to Ephesians 4:11: How to build apostles ( Memento of March 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Simson Media
- ^ House Church Basics. 15 theses. Wolfgang Simson
- ↑ http://www.simsonwolfgang.de/html/willkommen.html
- ↑ https://www.tyndale.com/authors/wolfgang-simson/1169
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simson, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian, church planter, publisher and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Germany |