Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
When you invite Jesus to your table, he won't play the polite guest. In Luke 14, he exposes the hard, proud, self-centered hearts that make us say no to God, and calls us to his eternal feast instead.
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View articlesÉglise Saint-Lazare is an evangelical Baptist church located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, at 47 rue de Naples. Sunday worship takes place at the Lycée-Collège Fénelon Sainte-Marie, at the same address. A member of the AEEBLF (Association of French-Speaking Baptist Evangelical Churches) and supported by the Acts 29 network, it describes itself as a church plant whose mission is to make the Gospel known in Paris, summed up in its motto: "Believe, Live, Proclaim."
Founded as a church-planting project, the church stands on the principles of the Protestant Reformation: the authority of Scripture alone, Jesus Christ as the sole mediator, and salvation by grace alone through faith alone. It confesses the Apostles' Creed as its doctrinal foundation. The pastoral team includes Étienne Koning, lead pastor, his wife Laurence Koning, a marriage and family counselor, and Bryan Koffman, associate pastor, together with his wife Carly Koffman.
Worship is held every Sunday, with coffee from 10:00 a.m. and the service at 10:30 a.m.; childcare and a children's club are offered for families. During the week, several home groups meet on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays across different Paris neighborhoods (Trocadéro, Villiers/Monceau, Porte de Saint-Ouen...) to study the Bible and share a meal. The church also runs a students' group, a women's group ("Passerelles"), a men's group ("Hommes de Dieu") and regular prayer meetings.
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
When you invite Jesus to your table, he won't play the polite guest. In Luke 14, he exposes the hard, proud, self-centered hearts that make us say no to God, and calls us to his eternal feast instead.
Église Saint-Lazare · 11 min read
In Exodus 7-8, God shows Pharaoh, and you, that the real question was never who can stand against the powers that oppress you, but who can stand against the LORD.
Église Saint-Lazare · 5 min read
On June 12, 1998, around 11 p.m., a reporter held out his microphone to Aime Jacquet after France's World Cup victory.
Église Saint-Lazare · 13 min read
There's a chapter in the Bible that ends with a question, and that question isn't waiting for Jonah's answer. It's waiting for yours. The book of Jonah doesn't close with a victory song.
Église Saint-Lazare · 12 min read
This Sunday at Momentum, the preacher opens Luke 15 by naming the weight of tension in the world: wars, political fractures, religious tensions.
Église Saint-Lazare · 9 min read
Should you look for a spouse? The question sounds simple, but it touches something very personal: your story, your wounds, what you hope for in the years ahead.
Église Saint-Lazare · 12 min read
"You need a savior, and I am giving him to you." That's God's core message for all of humanity. An essential message.
Église Saint-Lazare · 7 min read
First Sunday of 2026, at Saint-Lazare church. The preacher opens the first letter of Peter, chapter 2, verses 1 to 3, and asks a very simple question: at the heart of this new year, where does your relationship with the Word of God stand?
Église Saint-Lazare · 18 min read
This sermon closes the first part of the series on the book of Exodus, preached at Église Saint-Lazare (Momentum, Paris).
Église Saint-Lazare · 9 min read
One day in tenth grade, right in the middle of Latin class, my teacher (a genuinely gentle soul) stopped mid-sentence and cried out in front of the whole class: "You call yourselves Christians, you run your so-called Bible club...
Église Saint-Lazare · 11 min read
The Lord is risen. He is risen indeed. That is the sentence and the response that echo through the ages and every place, spoken this very morning and to be spoken again until Christ returns.
Église Saint-Lazare · 13 min read
The Momentum preacher opens with a near-throwaway remark: in 2020, during Covid, France 24 aired a program calling the French the world champions of complaining.
Église Saint-Lazare · 11 min read
Small god, small deliverance. Great God, great deliverance. That is the thread the preacher lays down from the start while meditating on Exodus 3 and 4.
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
What's the source of your daily actions? In other words, what's the software running behind your days, your choices, your commitments?
Église Saint-Lazare · 8 min read
John 14 is a long, rich, and dense text. Some have said of John's Gospel that it is like a body of water shallow enough for an infant to wade in and deep enough for an elephant to drown in.
Église Saint-Lazare · 9 min read
How do you talk about Jesus to a friend without feeling like you're performing a script? When should you speak up, when should you stay quiet, and what attitude keeps you from betraying either the gospel or the relationship?
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
Jonah's three days in the belly of the fish reveal what it means to be far from God, and the far greater rescue Jesus would accomplish for you.
Église Saint-Lazare · 12 min read
A fired manager plays his last card with his master's money, and Jesus turns his story into a piercing question about who really owns your heart: God or Mammon.
Église Saint-Lazare · 11 min read
Why do marriage and family make you dream so much and, at the same time, scare you so much?
Église Saint-Lazare · 6 min read
Nobody likes being deceived. Nobody. And yet we all are, more often than we think. A text message claiming a package is waiting on a customs fee. An ad selling you something you don't need.
Église Saint-Lazare · 7 min read
Nothing good waits for you away from the face of the LORD. That phrase runs through all of Jonah 1: in verse 3, Jonah flees away from the face of the LORD; at the end of that verse, he boards a ship away from the face of the LORD; in verse 10, the sailors realize he is fleeing away from…
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
Isaiah 40:12-31: God rules over nature, science, nations, and idols. Those who hope in the LORD will soar on wings like eagles.
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
Christmas is coming, and with it that old longing that rises in you: to go home. To find a warm place, a family together, a peace that lasts.
Église Saint-Lazare · 15 min read
We're nearing the end of Paul's letter to Titus. Remember: Paul wants to plant a church on Crete.
Église Saint-Lazare · 14 min read
Have you ever truly felt at home somewhere? Comfortable, at rest, exactly where you belong? Silas opens his sermon on Luke 15 with that blunt question, and his answer is clear: no.
Église Saint-Lazare · 17 min read
A Christmas meditation on Isaiah 40: the voice crying in the wilderness, the word that never fails, and the good Shepherd who gave his life to comfort and set you free.
Église Saint-Lazare · 6 min read
You may know the animated film The Prince of Egypt and its musical opening. It tells the story of the Exodus in its own way, but with a line that raises a problem: "You can do miracles when you believe."
Église Saint-Lazare · 15 min read
The Momentum preacher opens Jonah 3, a chapter where the unthinkable happens: a pagan city, violent, wicked, with a reputation for terror, bows before the God of Israel after a single day of preaching.
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
Aime Jacquet, June 12, 1998, around 11pm. France has just won its first World Cup.
Église Saint-Lazare · 5 min read
Picture the scene: Jesus enters the house of a leading Pharisee on a Sabbath day to share a meal, and every eye is on him (Luke 14:1). A man with dropsy is right there in front of him.
Église Saint-Lazare · 8 min read
Some of Jesus's words comfort you. And then there are these, in Luke 14:25-35, that make you sit up straight in your chair.
Église Saint-Lazare · 7 min read
It's the end of the year. You look back at the months that have gone by: the joys, the sorrows, the plans that held together and the ones that blew up mid-flight. And already, you're wondering what the new year will bring. A child who still hasn't come.
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
Why is your family so complicated? Why do relationships meant to be a place of peace so often become a place of conflict? The "What a Family!" series
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
When you hear the name Jonah, what comes to mind? The great fish that swallows him? The prophet sitting under a little plant, trying to find shade while he waits for a city to be destroyed?
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
"Lord, are only a few being saved?" That's the question a man asks Jesus as he walks toward Jerusalem (Luke 13:22-23).
Église Saint-Lazare · 7 min read
At the very start of a new year, you might feel like making some good resolutions. That's legitimate, and sometimes useful.
Église Saint-Lazare · 15 min read
They say we marry for love and divorce for reason. In France, about 45% of marriages end in divorce, sooner or later.
Église Saint-Lazare · 13 min read
For this Christmas service, Étienne, the lead pastor, opens the gathering with a very simple question: "What makes you joyful?"
Église Saint-Lazare · 6 min read
"What a family!" When you read those two words, something stirs in you. Maybe a smile, maybe a pang.
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
You may have been a Christian for a long time. You've known seasons of passion, times of growth in your life with Jesus. But today, you feel stuck.
Église Saint-Lazare · 8 min read
We're just days away from the end of a year, the moment when you take stock: what you planned, what you achieved, your joys, your sorrows.
Église Saint-Lazare · 8 min read
What is your faith really standing on? When everything around you keeps shifting (opinions, trends, the truths people sell you), what can you plant your feet on so you don't collapse?
Église Saint-Lazare · 8 min read
Paul writes to Titus and leaves him in Crete with a clear mission: put in order what remains to be done and appoint elders in every town.
Église Saint-Lazare · 9 min read
A look at Paul's letter to Titus: why the world's search for authenticity leads to disappointment, and how the God who does not lie makes you truly able to live in the truth.
Église Saint-Lazare · 9 min read
Some texts in the Bible smell like a party. Luke 15:1-10 is clearly one of them.
Église Saint-Lazare · 8 min read
What is your vision of God? How do you see him, day to day? A.W. Tozer, in The Knowledge of the Holy, opens his book with this line: what comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us...
Église Saint-Lazare · 7 min read
The book of Exodus opens with a family that has become a nation, and with a question you may be asking yourself today: what's the point of the promise when nothing changes?
Église Saint-Lazare · 8 min read
You're walking behind Jesus, there's a crowd, everyone's moving forward. Then he turns around and says something you don't want to hear.
Église Saint-Lazare · 9 min read
The night God struck Egypt's firstborn and Israel walked free is more than history: it points straight to the cross, where Jesus, our older brother, took the judgment in our place.
Église Saint-Lazare · 9 min read
In a culture obsessed with seeing to believe, John 20 shows why faith built on the word, not on sight, is the faith God calls blessed.
Église Saint-Lazare · 14 min read
Isaiah 11 promises a greater Exodus: God gathering a scattered people, healing old divisions, and leading them home through a perfect salvation in Jesus.
Église Saint-Lazare · 12 min read
"We'll all go to heaven, whether we're blessed or cursed." That old song shaped a generation. It sounds cool, tolerant, reassuring.
Église Saint-Lazare · 13 min read
When God's promises seem delayed and the enemy looks too strong, Exodus 5-6 shows how God answers doubt not with a new strategy, but with a fresh reminder of who he is.
Église Saint-Lazare · 10 min read
Eight honest questions about marriage, submission, and singleness, answered straight from Scripture.
Watch the full teachings on their YouTube channel.
At 47 rue de Naples in the 8th arrondissement of Paris; worship is held at the Lycée-Collège Fénelon Sainte-Marie, at the same address.
Every Sunday, with coffee from 10:00 a.m. and the service at 10:30 a.m.
It is an evangelical Baptist church, a member of the AEEBLF and supported by the Acts 29 network.
Étienne Koning, lead pastor, and Bryan Koffman, associate pastor.
Home groups across Paris neighborhoods, a children's club, a students' group, a women's group, a men's group, and regular prayer meetings.
Yes, on the church website and its YouTube channel; Efficient Church will also provide regular sermon summaries here.