[READ FULL ARTICLE HERE] WHAT DOES A SPIRITUALLY DISCIPLINED ENGAGEMENT OF SOCIAL MEDIA LOOK LIKE? And, I must confess, I don’t know the answer. I’ve never seen it. And, as these thoughts are basically new to me today, I’ve neverRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Transforming Technologies: Media and Mission Ministries
“This is NOREA RADIO broadcasting at Radio Luxembourg…” I still remember the real encouragement it was to me as a teenager in the late 70’s to listen to these Christian youth programmes on this popular radio channel. Not only didRead more…
Standing on the Promises of God: The Problem of Loose Ends
God seems to specialize in clear beginnings, full of the promise of prosperity, and moves us through uncertain journeys towards an ending, full of mystery. There is a very definite pattern in scripture of promises, full of promise, never quiteRead more…
Towards a Missional View of the Workplace
[READ FULL ARTICLE] In this article, I want to suggest 5 stages of discipleship for the follower of Christ in the work place. They are (1) non-believer, (2) disconnected disciple, (3) disciple of Christ-like character, (4) disciple of excellence, andRead more…
A Comment on “What to do when two people who love Jesus have two different points of view?”
This blog is a sympathetic response to Leslie Keeney’s “What to do when two people who love Jesus have two different points of view?” If it is true that they will know we are Jesus’ disciples by our love forRead more…
Powers of Evil
In his excellent commentary on Ephesians, John Stott defined the “rulers and authorities in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 1:21, 3:10, 6:12) as angels and demons. I respectfully disagree. Paul heaps up nouns to identify God’s enemies: rule and authority…power andRead more…
Should we allow culture to inform our values?
There is a common feeling among Christians that modern culture is, as Obi Wan Kenobi said, a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.” These people see society as immoral (or at best amoral) and imagine a great divide between theirRead more…
Jésus dans la culture contemporaine
Qui est Jésus aujourd’hui ? Comment nos contemporains perçoivent-ils Jésus dans nos sociétés post-modernes ? Un article…
Dieu est-il vert ? Bible et écologie
Un article sur l’écologie et la protection de l’environnement dans une perspective chrétienne…
We all have an ethnic identity
In response to a helpful piece by RCW on loving our ethnic neighbour Joseph Paul Cadariu asks whether we ‘have to separate “ethnic” neighbors from whatever “non-ethnic” neighbors may be.’ I would contend that there is no such thing asRead more…