Thanks Josiahs for breaking the ’taboo’. While, from your experience, mission is not talking about money, it looks to me as if the Church is on the other side of the divide. It seems as if everything is about money.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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
My Innovation Ended Up Where??
My Innovation Ended Up Where? So you come up with an idea, find your gang of co-conspiritors and launch it. Soon it is a huge success and you are off and running. But that isn’t the end of the story.Read more…
What is partnership about?
Partnership is one of those words that has become so overused that we have to go back and check we all mean the same thing. A friend recently reminded me that as a linguist I love to dissect words and playRead more…
Confessions of a Workplace Christian
I have worked in a large international consulting firm for almost thirty years. While completing college I felt God’s call on my life and I was ready to trade in my aspirations to become an engineer for training at a BibleRead more…
Can it be so simple?
Sometimes I don’t know what to say. Our friends who are living in desperation need to hear truth in a way that they can understand and experience. They don’t need to hear a four-point outline or some theological treatise onRead more…
HIV/AIDS prevention and the Church (in Africa)
It is clear that HIV/AIDS is one of the greatest development challenges for Africa, if not for the world at large. And it should therefore also be one of the greatest concerns for the Church, because the pandemic does notRead more…
Scripture in Mission
We have just finished a conference with all our workers from around the world. We had the Bible readings followed by small group discussions on the topics of the day. These were: Our God Reigns Psalm 99 The Mission ofRead more…
C.S. Lewis: The Problem with Pain
The existence of suffering in a world created by a good and almighty God—“the problem of pain”—is a fundamental theological dilemma, and perhaps the most serious objection to the Christian religion. C.S. Lewis 1898-1963 Known to his readers as aRead more…
Authenticity: A Cultural or Biblical Value?
“This lecture was powerful and moving. But for the following three reasons I do not think it works in Japan for Christian leaders to be open and honest with their followers…” These words were shared by Pastor A.*, a highlyRead more…
FEARLESS LOVE IN PAKISTAN
“David is able to pray for over 60 seeking Muslims during his visit to Pakistan. I met Muslims in Pakistan who discovered a life of righteous love through faith in Christ. Many wonder how any Muslim can become a Christian sinceRead more…