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Secularity: dogma meets diversity
Secularity: dogma meets diversity

Friends, again many thanks for all of your helpful feedback. I am concerned to avoid the impression of accepting the secularist assumptions but this is the world we live in - if…

Help! Youth is leaving the church! Youth does not know! Who cares?
Help! Youth is leaving the church! Youth does not know! Who cares?

Unseen, unheard, they just disappear. That is what is true for thousands of youth a month in Europe and beyond. And then there’s the millions who have no church connection…

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Church Free or Fearful?
Church Free or Fearful?

My main point was and is why church is so weak in third world countries? And now I can add are these 3rd world so poor and undeveloped because church…

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The Amazing Tree: A parable of the Church
The Amazing Tree: A parable of the Church

THE AMAZING TREE – AN EVANGELICAL PARABLE Alex Araujo  "On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month.…

From Collective Affirmations to Enduring Commitments: Lausanne Theology Discussion (2 of 7)
From Collective Affirmations to Enduring Commitments: Lausanne Theology Discussion (2 of 7)

Question #2 -- How do we really go about accomplishing something at Cape Town? How can we ensure that specific calls and charges and challenges that are made by speakers,…

A Heart for Missional-ness
A Heart for Missional-ness

I believe missions has to go beyond our desire for a verbal message to be heard.  The heart of missions needs to take root in a burden for God’s transforming…

The Value of the Church
The Value of the Church

A significant element of the Romanization of Phoenicia (modern day Lebanon) was the construction of a Roman temple complex at Baalbeck overlooking the fertile Bekaa valley.  Every emperor from Caesar…

Full Session: Dogma and Diversity Multiplex
Full Session: Dogma and Diversity Multiplex

Directions: Click the play button in the video window above to watch all videos from the session in order.  Alternatively, you may advance to a specific part of the session…

Waking Up to City Mission
Waking Up to City Mission

Waking up to city mission can be an uncomfortable experience... A massive party went down at the sport’s bar, Raging Gull* across the road from us in Polokwane with some…

Craig and Moreland on The Church Condition and It’s Relevance on Indonesian Churches
Craig and Moreland on The Church Condition and It’s Relevance on Indonesian Churches

In their (latest?) book, “Philosophical Foundation of a Christian Worldview” Craig and Moreland is proposing a view about the church’s condition as this: “…Despite their Christian commitment, they remain largely…

The Missional Church is not a New Thing
The Missional Church is not a New Thing

[This post can be viewed in original context here] The idea that mission should not just be a ministry of the church, one of its offered services, but actually a…

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The "Corporate" Image of Church: A High Powered Enterprise

Most contemporary churches today are becoming more and more like high-powered business enterprises. Business and corporate styles are being applied to church leadership, structures and strategies. These make-overs has given…

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Urban Poor Development Strategies
Urban Poor Development Strategies

Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Raineer Chu as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Embracing God’s…

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Sunday Lessons from Facebook
Sunday Lessons from Facebook

We asked the Lausanne Facebook Fan page the following question and recieved these comments: What did you learn on Sunday about representing Christ that you are going to put into…

The insignificance of Youth Ministry in sub-saharan Africa
The insignificance of Youth Ministry in sub-saharan Africa

The title if read at first value can be misleading and even question the intention. The intention is provocation which would lead to critique and question the authenticity of the…

The Urban Ministry of Jesus and the Missio Dei
The Urban Ministry of Jesus and the Missio Dei

Dr. Sergio Lyra 1. Defining Our Terms Considering that the proper understanding of terms is essential to the understanding, we decided to offer a brief discussion about the meaning of…

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Witnessing to Christ in a Secular Culture
Witnessing to Christ in a Secular Culture

Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Michael Herbst as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Morning Plenary session on “Making…

Contextualization Series: Why Contextualize? (3/3)
Contextualization Series: Why Contextualize? (3/3)

[READ FULL ARTICLE HERE] In this post, I provide the fourth of four (for now) theological foundations for pursuing contextualization in mission.  This foundation has to do with the whole…

THESE BEGGARS AGAIN!
THESE BEGGARS AGAIN!

We first heard this expression from a Missionary (?) (He is Nigerian and raises support in Nigeria to minster especially in Nigeria) staff of Great Commission Movement. According to him,…

4 Questions for John Piper
4 Questions for John Piper

John Piper was interviewed this week about his decision to pre-record his sermons and then show them instead of having a live preacher. Piper explained that because his church had…

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