{"id":939,"date":"2026-07-13T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/?page_id=939"},"modified":"2026-07-24T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T13:22:42","slug":"rev-dennis-pethers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/de\/about\/who\/rev-dennis-pethers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pfarrer Dennis Pethers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"939\" class=\"elementor elementor-939\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ca814b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9ca814b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;shape_divider_bottom&quot;:&quot;pyramids&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shape elementor-shape-bottom\" aria-hidden=\"true\" 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Er ging nie in die Kirche, seine Familie ging nie in die Kirche, und niemand in der Stra\u00dfe, in der er wohnte, ging in die Kirche.\u00a0 \u00a0Dennis dr\u00fcckt es so aus: \u201cIch wusste nicht, dass ich nicht in die Kirche ging \u2013 und ich wusste nicht, dass ich Jesus nicht kannte!\u201d<\/p><p>Dennis lernte Jesus kennen, nachdem sein Chef ihm das Buch \u2018Mere Christianity\u2019 zum Lesen gegeben hatte. Beim Lesen des Buches entdeckte er eine Wahrheit, die ihn einfach umgehauen hat: \u201cGott existiert nicht nur, er liebt mich so sehr, dass er f\u00fcr mich sterben w\u00fcrde.\u201d Diese Wahrheit hat ihn v\u00f6llig umgehauen und sein Herz ergriffen \u2013 es schien zu sch\u00f6n, um wahr zu sein: \u2018Der Sch\u00f6pfer des Universums und die Quelle allen Lebens ist bereit, f\u00fcr Menschen zu sterben, die es nicht verdienen!\u2019 Aber es ist wahr, und sein Leben hat sich f\u00fcr immer ver\u00e4ndert.\u00a0 Diese Begegnung mit Gott erf\u00fcllte Dennis\u2019 Leben mit einer neuen Leidenschaft, und er wollte, dass jeder diese erstaunliche Nachricht dar\u00fcber h\u00f6rte, wer Jesus war und was er f\u00fcr sie getan hatte. Niemand, den er kannte (au\u00dfer seinem Chef), hatte auch nur die geringste Ahnung, was das Evangelium war, und er stellte schnell fest, dass die meisten Christen gar nicht so sehr darauf erpicht sind, es weiterzugeben!<\/p><p>Diese Leidenschaft wuchs, und so k\u00fcndigte er seinen Job in London und absolvierte eine Ausbildung zum Pastor am Spurgeon\u2019s College. Seit seinem Abschluss war Dennis als Pastor einer Gemeinde t\u00e4tig und leitete anschlie\u00dfend 20 Jahre lang \u201eViz-A-Viz Ministries\u201c, einen britienweiten Dienst.\u00a0 Im Jahr 2012 gr\u00fcndete Dennis \u201eThe Rooftop\u201c als globale Bewegung zur J\u00fcngerschaft, die die Gemeinde inspirieren und bef\u00e4higen soll, sich Jesus in seiner Mission anzuschlie\u00dfen, indem sie J\u00fcnger ausbildet, die wiederum au\u00dferhalb der Mauern der Gemeinde weitere J\u00fcnger ausbilden.<\/p><p>Dennis ist mit Lynn verheiratet, und die beiden haben drei erwachsene Kinder: Gregg, Scott und Amy.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e2ea08d e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e2ea08d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev Dennis Pethers Contact Dennis on: Facebook Instagram Youtube Envelope Founder and International Pioneer Rev Dennis Pethers The Rooftop Dennis Pethers was born and brought up just on the edge of London, England and came from a background where church did not feature at all.\u00a0 He never went to church, his family never went to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":941,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-939","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/939\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therooftop.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}