ENI – “We are at a point of no return,” said Bishop Wolfgang Huber, who heads the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the country's main Protestant grouping. He was speaking to more than 300 delegates from throughout Germany gathered in Wittenberg, the town where Martin Luther launched the Reformation five centuries ago, to consider how to strengthen the profile of Protestantism in Germany.
The EKD has said that if it does not act now, then by 2030 it will have lost a third of its members and 50 percent of its income. Currently there are about 25 million Protestants, or less than a third of Germany's 82 million people, within the EKD.
“At the centre of all Reformation has to be the Sunday service,” Huber stated in a speech. “We have to concentrate on our spiritual capacity and our Christian mission,” he said, noting that preaching was at the centre of Luther's message.
