Editorial

When the CNEF was created (1)

The National Council of Evangelists in France (CNEF) was born on the 15th of June 2010 where 75% of the evangelists meet together. Let me bring your attention on two major points :

- For most of us we ignore that, as Jacques Blocher wrote it : “The legitimacy of this new born institution is even stronger that the very idea of it is as old as the evangelical world. That's why we can see the CNEF as a long term fulfillment. Each and every union and federation established during the 19th C. wished to gather a lot of people around them but never reached that goal. […] So let's think about the CNEF with thankfulness freed from historical weigh ! Let's see in it – one century later – the Welsh awakening's heir which every different poles of the CNEF can take part in !” (2)

- We hope that the CNEF will bring a deep and beneficial impulse to French evangelism. At least that's what most members wish and also expressed during the constituent council. Quite personally, I think this has already begun...

Alain Stamp

1. Check the final statement of the constituent council of the CNEF.
2. Jacques E.Blocher, in Les cahiers de l’Institut Biblique de Nogent, n° 148, juin 2010, p. 13.