God is the one who established diversity. Galatians 3:28 reminds us that “…there is no Jew nor Greek, no male nor female, no slave nor free. We are all one in Christ Jesus.” According to James Breckenridge and Lillian Breckenridge,Read 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Bridge Peoples: The Role of Ethnic Minorities
It doesn’t take more than a trip to the grocery store to recognize that we live in a time of profound cultural change. Even our smallest hometowns are no longer mono-cultural. Instead, they are mixtures of people from a varietyRead more…
The Church as Glocal
We are living in a global world—the young generation, especially. We have a global culture. Most of us know Facebook, Michael Jackson, iPhone, Avatar, Nike. Brands are global. Movies are global. Artists are global. But still, the place where weRead more…
Glocalization, Diaspora Missiology, and Friendship
In five months, Lausanne Cape Town 2010 (CT2010) will be a fresh opportunity to think about creative approaches for relational forms of evangelism. One new paradigm to consider is glocalized evangelism at the intersection between global people movements and localRead more…
Beyond Basic Evangelism: Pentecostals, Part 2
(Editor’s note: This article is Part Two of a two-part article. To view Part One, click here. This article continues with the fifth of eight characteristics of biblical evangelism.) 5. Evangelism is eschatologically urgent. Jesus said, “As long as itRead more…
Beyond Basic Evangelism: Pentecostals, Part 1
(Editor’s note: This article is Part One of a two-part article. To view Part Two, click here. This article includes the first four of eight characteristics of biblical evangelism.) On a routine Saturday in Boston some 150 years ago, aRead more…
Glocal Evangelism: Using Films in Toronto
The word “glocal” was originally coined to express a new interweaving of “local” and “global” in business and communication advertisements. In evangelism and missions, I propose that Christ’s followers must be engaged in local and global arenas simultaneously.1 This hasRead more…
The Challenge of Keeping Up with Technology for Mi
For the past fourteen years, I’ve had the privilege of being involved in the exciting area of “digital ministry.” For a number of years, in my position with Gospel Communications, I worked alongside hundreds of ministries in many parts ofRead more…
The 21st Century Roman Road
Gone are the days when mission workers could assume that our technology is more developed than that of the population we serve. Often, we are stronger on missiology than technology. Unlike those to whom we reach out, we may notRead more…
Ten Ways the Internet Is Changing Evangelism
Ten Ways the Internet Is Changing Evangelism and Missions By John Edmiston June / July 2010 There are currently 1.7 billion active Internet users; another three billion are expected to be added in the next five years. The developing worldRead more…