Reformation is a large concept, a work of God so broad, deep and historic that it is beyond my scope, and probably that of The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. I opt for something more modest: a ’reformation ofRead 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.
The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library. Other content contributed by Global Conversation users is archived on this website. Read more »
A Small Version of the Grand Narrative
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering in Service’ Editor’s note: Shortly after Libby Little wrote this response to Ajith Fernando’s article on suffering, she received news that her husband had been brutally murdered while returning from a medical mission inRead more…
A 21st Century Reformation: Recovering the Supernatural
One of the big surprises of the 20th century was the dramatic growth of the churches in the non-western world. A bigger surprise was that, as Philip Jenkins asserts, those churches growing fastest are all strongly supernaturally oriented. ’In thisRead more…
The Devil’s Mask on the Face of God
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering In Servicer’ ’Thus God wears the mask of the Devil, and the Devil wears the mask of God; God wants to be recognized under the mask of the Devil, and he wants theRead more…
Rejecting the Cross
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering In Service’ In his insightful article, Fernando laments a contemporary idea of vocational fulfilment in ministry that has removed the cross from its core while adopting efficiency as its measuring standard. He pointsRead more…
Suffering and Prosperity: Equal Challenges to Faith
A response to Ajith Fernando’s ’Embracing Suffering in Service’ As a Westerner I wholeheartedly agree with Fernando’s conclusions. For centuries large parts of the Middle East were lost to church and mission because of Islam. The same can become trueRead more…
Embracing Suffering In Service
I felt humbled as I returned from teaching pastors in the deep south of Sri Lanka. In these pastors’ experience, it often takes ten to fifteen years pioneering in unreached areas before they see significant fruit and reduced hostility. ManyRead more…
Finding the Balance: Local & Global Missions
As followers of Christ, how do we help our individual church leaders balance their attention between local mission efforts and global missions? Or to ask the question another way, how does the Body of Christ participate in both local andRead more…
Keeping God’s People on the Mission Field
With financial support to missionaries decreasing, God has given me a vision to help them remain in place. My area of expertise is photography. As professional Christian photographers put their talents to use for the expansion of God’s Kingdom, theRead more…
Revolution in World Missions
Dr. K.P. Yohannan writes on a profound way for the church of the west to maximize it’s impact in world missions…by supporting native missionaries. it’s a free book from www.gfa.org. I encourage everyone get it from their website…transformed some ofRead more…