When my son Aidan was twelve years old, he had a dream. He wanted to help provide water for a village on the other side of the world. Through a series of amazing events, he helped raise money for aRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Sure-fire ways to kill a partnership
With our work team’s global partnership experience of over forty years, we have come up with three sure-fire ways to kill a partnership. Call a meeting too early. Try to write a constitution. And Try to write a theological statement!Read more…
Teamwork: Body Building with Divine Purposes
Biblical teamwork is more than reaching goals. Biblical teamwork, like other facets of Body life, will bring glory to God, enhance Christ-like development in each team member, and exhibit loving interdependence between team members. These and many other characteristics setRead more…
Contextualization Series: Obedience v. Pragmatism
Excerpt: “. . . There is no shortage of anecdotal evidence provided by Christian opponents of contextualization who may point to story after story of Hindus who decided to follow Christ even though the gospel was presented in what might beRead more…
Churches making their message app-licable
For tech-savvy Christians or for just about any of the faithful under 35 years old, it’s a no-brainer: Spreading the Gospel means using the tools available now … and for a growing number of churches, that means having their ownRead more…
Feed My Sheep
Because of the orality of many emerging pastors of new house churches, I have concern for equipping and empowering these leaders to be competent to feed their people spiritually. In places where rapid church growth is taking place many ofRead more…
Teamwork: Body Building with Divine Purposes
Biblical teamwork is more than reaching goals. Biblical teamwork, likeother facets of Body life, will bring glory to God, enhance Christ-like development in each team member, and exhibit loving interdependence between team members. These and many other characteristics set biblicalRead more…
Missionary Theology
Following a modified version of the New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Christian theology may be defined as the attempt by Christians to make reasoned, Bible based, Christ centred, but culture sensitive, consistent, systematic statements, explicating the faith and its basis, placed withinRead more…
People At Work: Preparing To Be The Whole Church
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Willy Kotiuga as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Preparing Your Marketplace for a Faith Journey.” Responses to this paperRead more…
Understanding the Christ’s way of leading
For a couple of years now, I have been struggling to understand the meaning of true leadership. Whether it is at home, school, work, church, clubs, organisations, politics, everywhere, my conviction is that leadership is taken for granted! Those whoRead more…