5/11/2023 0 Comments Big D by Stephanie BrotherA friend of mine who’d worked as an evangelist for decades in Denmark told me my vision of seeing 10 churches planted in 10 years was a pipe dream. I was an Americanized Swede lost in Denmark. When I first showed up in Copenhagen with my wife, Stephanie, we felt our weakness profoundly. As our brother Tim Savage clarifies in his book on gospel ministry from 2 Corinthians, Paul wanted to distance himself from the self-exalting sophists of Corinth and simultaneously dismantle the criticism he was receiving from the church by providing this paradox: “When I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor. In his first letter to the Corinthian church, Paul admitted he’d come to them not with eloquent speech or “plausible words of wisdom” but in a demonstration of the Spirit’s power (1 Cor. My name is Carl Jan Christian Roth, and the story of TGC Norden’s beginnings is much like a biblical story-one of God preparing the way, of his power made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. TGC Norden seeks to serve Christians in the countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as the Faroe Islands and Greenland.
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