Author: Bradford M. Smith, Chair, Lausanne Care and Counsel as Mission Interest Group (LCCMIG) The Lausanne Care and Counsel as Mission Interest Group—the newest initiative within the Lausanne family of working and special interest groups is asking the question, “WhatRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Apostolic Instructions for Modern Church Leaders
Getting back to the original sources is an academic research principle I stress to my students over and over. Christian leadership has been refined and developed for 2000 years. We would be foolish to ignore all of that collective wisdom.Read more…
Full Session: Bible Exposition – Ephesians 1
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 by using the next arrow or by clicking the playlistRead more…
What would a Creation-caring kind of ministry look like?
This is the concluding section of a longer paper called ’Confessions of a Reluctant Environmentalist’ first published at Urbana.org – click here for the original full article. These final remarks seemed most relevant for discussions leading up to Cape TownRead more…
How Do You Pray about an Oil Spill?
Though the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now capped and the world has for the most part moved on, the issue of how we as Christians should respond to such situations remains. I wrote the following articleRead more…
What is an Environmental Missionary?
Care of Creation and Eden Vigil, two Christian creation care organizations cohosted a Consultation on Environmental Missions in Manhattan KS July 12-16. A small group of environmental and missions leaders spent three days together hashing out issues toward establishing EnvironmentalRead more…
One of Two Reasons are Behind Every Sin of a Believer
Spiritual ignorance (not knowing what to do) or willful disobedience (knowing what to do but not doing it) are behind every sin that a believer commits. Both of these hindrances to Christ-like development can be overcome as a believer commitsRead more…
THE ISSUE OF SUFFERING IN MISSION
I haven’t read any article with regards to the issue of suffering as we take the whole Gospel to the whole world. Has suffering got anything to do with the propagation of the Good News? What should be the responseRead more…
Christians in the public square: An attractive networking model from the media world
The MediaNet.org is a recently established network in UK of Christians in the media. I had the privilege last week of being guest speaker at their regional meeting in London. It was a delight to share the Gimlekollen story and theRead more…
Rehabilitating the Image of Christianity among Muslims
For all Americans, September 11, 2001 was one of the most memorable days in our modern history. It was the day radical terrorists attacked the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon in the Washington DC, killing almostRead more…