You’ve probably seen them—most of us have. Ads soliciting women to donate their eggs for in vitro fertilization are everywhere: in newspapers, on the Internet, on college campus bulletin boards. Most people don’t even think twice about it. An opportunityRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
What Do 30 Pieces of Silver Buy You Today?
While this piece is related to human embryonic stem cell policies in the U.S. it is quite relevant to the global discussions around the ethical use of early human life in research. I’m just back from Washington, D.C., where IRead more…
WHY DOES A HOLY GOD CHOOSE SINNERS?
According to Ephesians chapter 1, the reason why a holy God chooses sinners has nothing to do with the sinners, and everything to do with God. In a moment this will be explained — first, let us get some contextRead more…
Prepare for a Fresh Anointing
Prepare for a Fresh Anointing(새로운 기름부으심을 기다리라) I sense that we are moving into a new spiritual season, and I want to share several important keys to help you prepare to receive a fresh anointing. 나는 지금 우리가 새로운Read more…
God is like Chocolate
The meeting was powerful and at the moment of the altar call almost everyone stood up and came forward. The pastor and a rogue evangelist from Guatemala were praying for the people moved by God. A Muslim woman came upRead more…
Research Forms: People Groups & Areas
Attached here are two forms that we provide for our new church planters to encourage them to begin engaging in meaningful research in their respective mission fields. The forms are not intended to help produce a full-fledged ethnographic report ofRead more…
When Paul Preached the Gospel
The attached PDF is a handout which features three of Paul’s evangelistic sermons printed side-by-side. We use this handout in training events especially for new church planters to teach them about the importance of understanding their mission fields and pursuingRead more…
Are Transformational Church Planting Movements Real?
The very mention of “Transformational Church Planting Movements” in the question indicates that such a movement exists, otherwise how can one even begin to talk about it. Now the task is to establish the veracity of reports that quantify theRead more…
Contextualization in Church-Planting Missions: What is it?
The attached PDF is of an article that we use especially in training events to introduce new church planters to the concept of contextualization. It provides a very brief definition and important questions for reflection that can provide useful forRead more…
Christ, Creation Stewardship and Missions
This paper was presented at a Missions Forum at the Overseas Ministries Study Center in December 2009. Craig Sorley is Director of Care of Creation Kenya, sister organization of Care of Creation Inc. in the US, and committed to ’mobilizingRead more…