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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »

Social Media and Spiritual Disciplines

[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…

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…

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…

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…