To facilitate a truly global conversation, we ask Christian leaders from around the world to respond to the Global Conversation’s lead articles. These points of view do not necessarily represent the Lausanne Movement. They are designed to stimulate discussion fromRead more…
Integrity and Partnership in Mission
The idea of “integrity” is something that is complete. It is whole, without missing parts, full, perfect, with appropriate weight and measure. When referring to a person, it’s about the pure, proven, without cracks. When we speak of mission,Read more…
A Clash of Two Leadership Paradigms Affecting the Church-Scattered Concept
I may be wrong but I think many of our churches face a clash of two leadership paradigms. One that works well in a centralised hierarchy of power. And another that is diffuse and more like a web. (Just toRead more…
Prayer is an outflow of a loving relationship!
What a pity if prayer is a means to achieve something, if it is just a “magic” way of using one’s spiritual power. I am convinced that, as we embrace the Lord in a loving relationship- totally based on HISRead more…
Integrity – Men and Women
German author Elke Werner, co-leader of Christus-Treff, says the Church must model the relationship between men and women as intended by God. Download Options PC users: Right click a link and choose “Save as” to download file. Mac users: CommandRead more…
Church Free or Fearful?
My main point was and is why church is so weak in third world countries? And now I can add are these 3rd world so poor and undeveloped because church is weak here? When I was working with a ChristianRead more…
Full Session: Integrity – Plenary 2
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South to North; language, power, gospel.
That many African people (and those from the global ‘south’ in general) love to use European languages should not surprise us in the slightest. Many do not see the problems with (say) using English in their countries, but rather manyRead more…
There Are No Unreached Children
Editors’ Note: This is an advance paper for Cape Town 2010, written as an early draft of content to be discussed at the multiplex session on “There are No Unreached Children.” Responses to this paper will be fed back toRead more…
A sketch on the mobilization of the Latin American
The Evangelical Latin American Church has grown quickly in the last 50 years. The nationalization of the leadership in the first half of the century and the emergence of national churches in the 30s, were decisive factors for the developmentRead more…