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J-CATS Japanese Contextual and Theological Studies

Challenges for Japanese Churches with Pastor Takuma Kobayashi

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Takuma Kobayashi is the pastor of Cloud Church, a fully online Japanese church, and in addition to two Cloud Church youtube channels, runs the Mattari Seisho Labo Youtube channel and podcast which deals with Japanese Christianity. We chat about challenges for Christianity in Japan, online church, relational evangelism, further reading to understand Japanese society, church dropouts, small church challenges, demands on church-goers, geographic challenges, and other topics

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