The Lutheran Charismatic movement Oase, Doulos Nettverket and Kristent Nettverk together, arranged the seminars with Wolfgang Simson last weekend in Bergen. Only around sixty to eighty people attended the seminars. The two first days the focus was on how to bring in the plentiful harvest through planting church planting movements. The two next days the focus was on being church in the third millennium.

He started his seminar by giving us some insight in what God is doing in the world today. God is doing something new. The traditional way of Christianity is fading away. A new life is breaking forth. Jesus Christ is reforming his church so that his church may be able to fulfil the Great Commission. Christians in the West must realise that we are students only and not the teachers. We have to learn from what God is doing in China, India, Bangla Desh and Pakistan. What God is doing will change everything. Our Ecclesiology, use of money and Christian unity will have to change.

Our ability to practice the Word of God that comes to us through the Bible and God’s prophets will determine our future!

Wolfgang Simson (1959) functions as a strategy consultant, researcher, theologian and journalist within various networks and regional and global strategy thing tanks. After working as a social worker and taxidriver in Stuttgart, Germany, he later graduated with an M.Th. from the Free Evangelical Theological Academy (Basel, Switzerland), where he later taught courses on Church Growth and Mission Strategy and became the assistant of the Dean, Prof. Samuel Külling. Since 1983 Wolfgang was involved in several churches in leadership positions as pastor, teacher and evangelist. After an extensive time of functioning as a Church Consultant for mainly Lutheran churches he did postgraduate studies in Missions and Cultural Anthropology in Belgium and the USA. Through extensive and global research on growing churches, church planting movements and revival and mission breakthroughs he became a competent and widely sought-after speaker, focussing on issues of completing the Great Commission by discipling nations through multiplying churches, the unity, substance and essence of the church, and is currently one of the global voices on the City-Church and house-based forms of Christianity.

He is a board member of both the British and the German Church Growth Associations, member of the Lausanne Movement in Germany, editor of the The Fridayfax, and author of several books including Houses that change the world. Wolfgang Simson is of Hungarian, German and Jewish descent, and is married to Mercy (daughter of Evangelist and author Sadhu Chellappa, India). They have three sons, and have moved from Madras, South India to live in Germany.