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Full Session: Integrity – Plenary 2
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Calling the Church to Confession & Revival
“The message of Jesus Christ cannot be proclaimed by people who have nothing to repent of.” — John Raines What if the Congress was the moment in which God launched the largest revival the Church has ever seen? Chris Wright’sRead more…
Praying, then Planning . . . don’t change the order
Planning often “runs ahead” of praying . . . which is a recipe for failure. As plans go forward in ministry and mission, may leaders make prayer THE priority for effective planning. To do otherwise speaks more of one’s ownRead more…
Muddled Methods
From a blog previously posted at ChinaSource. Short term, second career/retirees, non-resident, itinerant, indigenous, career… so many different ways and approaches for trying to bring transformation across cultural barriers. I certainly have opinions—very strong ones!—on which of these methods areRead more…
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Foreign Finances and the Local Church
There are a number of discussions related to finances and missions taking place on the Lausanne sites. Many of these focus on the nature of the financial interactions between outsiders and the local church. Throughout these conversations, I have beenRead more…
Dissonance or Consonance: Power, Pride and Leadership
I understand there are going to be 4,000 evangelical “leaders” at Capetown 2010. How can one tell who the real leaders really are? Different badge colors? Ties instead of T-shirts? Oxfords in place of sandals? I’m not talking about proprietyRead more…
Solo es obediente quien cree, solo quien cree obedece
En Isaías 6, el profeta dijo: “Vi al Señor…y lo exalté…” Llama la atencion, de cuanto tiempo había entrado en el templo y no lo había visto? Quiza, la clave del encuentro está en la primera parte >>v.1 “En elRead more…
Calling the Church Back to Humility
This paper did well as it presented clearly the situation in the contemporary Church. The section in which there was a contrast of observed values of Church leaders was instructive as it made a clear case for Church leaders toRead more…
The Use of “Platforms” in China Ministry
As Christianity becomes more common in mainland China and loses its traditional stigma in more and more social settings, at what point does the long-standing concept of using “platforms” for engaging in ministry within China become a counterproductive way ofRead more…