Eastern Europe (Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine) has one of the largest landmasses of any region in the world. Russia is the largest country in the world, and Ukraine is the second largest inRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Contextualization Series: Why Contextualize? (3/3)
[READ FULL ARTICLE HERE] In this post, I provide the fourth of four (for now) theological foundations for pursuing contextualization in mission. This foundation has to do with the whole Church being whole and thus has something significant to sayRead more…
Completing the Body of Christ – Missing Peoples
Completing the Body of Christ – Missing Peoples Submitted by Victor John How do we define ‘missing people’? Our world is predominantly Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and scores of people without access to the gospel. Since all human beings are createdRead more…
A Great Misconception-Music the Universal Language – Part 2 of 3
[continued from Part 1] We Went, We Sang, We Conquered… During the 19th and 20th centuries, as Western and European Christians went out around the world, they were influenced by the prevalent philosophies of their home cultures, such as culturalRead more…
Prosperity Theology: a mere symptom of a graver illness for the global church to diagnose
I was inspired to write the attached article after reading global conversations especially on Prosperity Theology. As I explain, I believe the prosperity message is merely a symptom to a much graver problem that the global church needs to interpretRead more…
Global Gospel, Global Era: Christian discipleship and mission in the age of Globalization
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Os Guinness and David Wells as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Globalization.” Responses to this paper through the Lausanne GlobalRead more…
A shift in mission giving?
I had been quite busy the past few months with arrangements for the sessions of the Resource Mobilisation Working Group (RMWG) at the Lausanne Congress. It was not easy to put a program together for the sessions. However, the moreRead more…
Humility: God’s Path to Edification & Exaltation
Humility is a necesssary trait for effective ministry and leadership. Humility is also the path by which we all came to Christ. Predictably, humility is a gift from God and is seen most notably in believers with a dynamic andRead more…
Mission in the Psalms and the Psalms in Mission
12 May 2010 saw the public launch of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Mission, a new Redcliffe College initiative aiming to serve the Church by engaging in research, teaching, writing and speaking on mission in the Bible,Read more…
When Dogma And Diversity Meet Communion and Gospel
Robert Calvert, in an article written for the Lausanne Conversation entitled ” Secularity: Dogma meets Diversity in Europe”, makes the following comment,” The challenge of secularity is to make the case for the truth of Christ in societies that areRead more…