I am one of the 3% Diaspara currently living in Atlanta, GA, USA. When I first came to USA in 1978 it was hard to find an Indian in USA but NOW you’ll find them in every airport, airplane, busRead 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The Global Conversation platform is no longer active, but core Lausanne content has been moved to the main Lausanne website and may be found in the Lausanne content library.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 »
Who is open to a new answer for AIDS?
Seems like a silly question doesn’t it? Yet our non-profit organization has found a treatment solution that doesn’t involve pharmaceuticals, it works, and we’re currently using it in many clinics and orphanages in South Africa and Swaziland. Yet still manyRead more…
Why Give?
As I’ve talked to Christians all over the world about financial giving, one question has rarely come up. I often hear questions like “What should I give?” or “Where should I give it?” or “To whom, how much, or whenRead more…
Director, All Nations Family
Planting churches among unengaged and unreached people groups really means engaging in holistic discipleship. To start simple churches without caring deeply about people’s whole lives is pretty superficial, and to be engaged in transformation of people’s social and economic circumstances withoutRead more…
A Crisis of Context
A Crisis of Context One of the greatest challenges to innovation in mission today is our crisis of context. What does that mean you say? Very simple…almost all of the ideas and thinking that circulate today are in snippets. ThinkRead more…
Why Truth is Important…it’s not what you think!
Why Truth is Important . . . its not what you think! I listen to certain Christmas songs all year round. Does that surprise you? Well, it certainly surprises me. Sometimes I wonder why I turn my Ipod to theseRead more…
PROSPERITY GOSPEL
I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE ARE CALLING PROPERITY GOSPEL, BECAUSE I KNOW EVERYTHING IS IN CHRIST JESUS. JESUS HIMSELF DID NOT PREACH PROSPERITY BECAUSE, PROSPERITY IS PART OF THE KINGDOM. WHAT THE CHURCH MINISTERS ARE PREACHING TODAY IS NOT PROSPERITYRead more…
Contextualized the Gospel or Myself
In cross-cultural work does the gospel need to be contextualized or do we need to be contextualized to be sensitized to the new culture ? Does the Gospel fit every culture without being modified ? Is it us the messengersRead more…
Elders! Elders! Elders!
Elders, Elders, Elders! Having lived for one year now in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, it is my straightforward observation that indigenous Christian churches here tend to be small, relatively feeble, and often lacking in strength of leadership. Pastors are typicallyRead more…
Model or Mandate: The Justification for Mission
This conversaton traces the changing views for justification for mission since Lausanne 1974.