This morning is Ephesians 4, with expositional teaching from Vaughan Roberts, rector at St Ebbes Church, Oxford. If the internet holds up I’ll live blog the teaching – apologies for any spelling mistakes. It’s Africa day today so we’re startignRead more…
About the Lausanne Global Conversation
The Lausanne Global Conversation was an online platform for connecting participants in the Lausanne Movement's Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa (Cape Town 2010) before, during and after the Congress.
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Cape Town 2010: Half-way in
Wow we’ve got to the half-way point of the Third Lausanne Congress in Cape Town. It’s been good to see a day which has sparked more discussion – frustration with John Piper not finishing his exegesis – I’d have lovedRead more…
Day 3 Evening
With a slightly better internet connection than before I’m going to attempt to live blog tonight – apologies for any spelling mistakes. Tonight we’re thinking about mega-cities: More than 400 cities have a million or more people in them now.Read more…
Integrity & Authenticity in Leadership
This session is being live-translated so it was a little bit more difficult to take effective notes – apologies if these aren’t a full record but it was an interesting session with Durvalina Bezerra. We started the session from theRead more…
Reaching those of other faiths
Benjamin Kwashe presented his Advance Paper with much emotion and feeling as he shared his personal testimony at the end. Michael Ramsden challenged us to focus on having humility and tears. Sharing faith with others costs a lot but weRead more…
Ephesians 3
This morning we were helped to look at Ephesians 3 by John Piper. He split the chapter up into three “scenes”: Scene 1: The Great Cosmic Purpose of God is to make know the glory of his wisdom to theRead more…
Day 2 Evening
This evening’s focus was on the Middle East, below are some stories, facts and comments: Iran: The most closed coutnry to Christianity in the world and yet one of the most spiritually open. More Iranians have come to Christ inRead more…
The Environmental Crisis, the Gospel, and Christian witness
I’ve been wrestling for the last couple of years with a Christian response to the environment and trying to understand the environment and specifically climate change at a better level. I’ve read somewhere in the region of 25 books inRead more…
Truth of Christ Plenary
This morning we heard brief thoughts from Carver Yu, Michael Herbst, Os Guinness and Paul Joshua along with opportunities to discuss their key thoughts. Much of the material was helpfully based upon Advance Papers. Below are some stand out comments:Read more…
The Gospel of Reconciliation
Praitha Timothy: Praitha is heavily involved in the International Justice Movement working to rescue those who are trafficked and enslaved in India. She shared some powerful stories and encouraged us to demonstrate that God hears their cry and will rescueRead more…