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Equipping the Church to Respond with Truth and Grace
It is the rare church, in this day and age, that is not in some way impacted by homosexuality. For some, it is clear and obvious. Perhaps an openly gay person or couple begins attending, or someone struggling with unwanted same-sex attraction comes...
Ethical Dimensions – Part 2: Holiness and False Idols
Joel Edwards Heritage and heroesEvangelical compliance and contradictionsHoliness and Prosperity Idolatry and the Superman SyndromeLessons from Jethro? For more information go to Ethical Dimensions – Part 2: Holiness and False Idols on the Lausanne...
Evangelism Among Thinking People
“Man is obviously made for thinking.” “Thought constitutes man’s greatness.” “Man’s greatness comes from knowing he is wretched. A tree does not know it is wretched.” These sayings of Blaise Pascal, the French genius and apologist, remind us that...
Everyday Mission in Every Vocation
A Curated Resource Library on Workplace Ministry Developed from the Fourth Lausanne Congress, Seoul-Incheon, September 2024 Full-Time for Such a Time Esther 4:14 This theme guided the Workplace Track of the Fourth Lausanne Congress, helping...
Feeding the 5,000
The South Korean Church Hosts the Global Church The Bible has much to say about food and God’s mission. A deliberate decision was made to provide no disposable paper cups. Instead, participant Welcome Kits include a tumbler and a cup made of bamboo...
Financial Sustainability and the Future of Mission
Funding Majority World church mission The right model should ‘give Majority World mission movements the confidence to be bold in exploring mobilization approaches that are not reliant on Western agency grant funding. . . . as [Western agencies]...
Fostering Redemptive Conversations at Work
Workplace Evangelism for the 99 Percent ‘The chief agents in the expansion of Christianity appear not to have been those who made it a profession…but men and women who carried on their livelihood in some purely secular manner and spoke of their...
Foundations and Priorities for Christian Engagement with Muslims and Islam
Accra Statement and Working Document on IslamBiblical and Theological Foundations for ChristianMajor Priorities for the Coming Years in Christian Engagement with Muslims and IslamMotivating and mobilizing the churchesDemonstrating membership of the...
From Muslim to Movements
I was born into a staunch Muslim family in Marsabit, northern Kenya.... While growing up, I took my Islamic studies seriously and avoided the Christians. "I remember longing deeply for a personal relationship with God" " I suddenly felt complete...
From the Nations to the Nations
Cross-cultural Sending Churches The diaspora is now the third largest nation in the world, after China and India. A Sending Church God is bringing the nations to cities like Dubai, Paris, London, Singapore, and Seoul, with corporations bearing the...
From the Nations to the Nations
Cross-cultural Sending Churches In 2020, the global estimate of international migrants was 281 million, which equates to 3.6 percent of the global population.1 That number is estimated to have grown to 350 million in 2024, which means that the...
From Younger Leader to Global Mentor
Paul Borthwick on the Lasting Impact of YLG As the Fourth Younger Leaders Gathering (YLG 4) approaches in March 2027 in São Paulo, Brazil, Paul’s reflections offer both encouragement and a compelling reason for both emerging and seasoned leaders to...
Fulfilling the Discipleship Mandate
Disciple-Making Churches For Every People And Place 101 Why we gather Come this Sunday, hundreds of millions of Christians will converge all across the world in their local fellowship. ‘Going to church’ we often say. And the sheer variety of...
Gaining Perspective on Territorial Spirits
In North American Christian circles, the novels of Frank Peretti did not so much chart a new direction in thinking as they described the path many were already walking. Over the past several years as I have spoken to various groups on spiritual...
Giving for a Return in the Prosperity Gospel and the New Testament
David J. Downs Interested Giving and the Prosperity GospelA (Brief!) Sketch of Questions about Giving for a ReturnGiving for a Return in the NTFor more information go to Giving for a Return in the Prosperity Gospel and the New Testament on the...
Global Gospel, Global Era: Christian discipleship and mission in the age of Globalization
“Globalization” is a monumental challenge that represents quite simply the most pressing face of “the world” in our time, as well as the greatest opportunity for mission and the greatest challenge for discipleship the church of Jesus Christ has...
Go Into All the World(s): The Gospel in Gaming
How We’ve Failed Gen Z/AThe iPad Generation Around 94% of Gen Z and Gen A identify themselves as gaming enthusiasts . . . the gaming industry is larger than any world religion by almost 1 billion people; with about 3.34 billion gamers in the world...
God is More Interested in Role Than in Rank
Tom Houston, the fourth president of the Lausanne Movement, served in many top leadership roles in the Christian world. Billy Graham himself expressed appreciation for Tom’s ‘insights into the spiritual state of the UK.’ This article traces his...
God on the Move in South Africa
Fruit from the Fourth Lausanne Congress Inspiring a Denomination with a Vision for Mission Sophia Roman – Assemblies of God Theological Education Accelerating the Great Commission Thinking Louie Naidoo – South African Theological Seminary (SATS) A...
God on the Move Podcast
God of the Move podcasts God of the Move podcasts Sharing God-stories from the global church with the global church Explore the pulse of global mission with ‘God on the Move’—a new Lausanne Movement podcast dedicated to uncovering and celebrating...
God on the Move: Beginning with Guyana
Stretching from the northern tip of Latin America up towards North America and Mexico, the Caribbean is an archipelago of over 7,000 islands and home to over 44 million people. While boasting exquisite natural beauty and popular for its beaches and...
God’s Mission Needs the Right Message
The Sending Message is Key We Still Need to SendWe Need Information from Beyond our Comfort ZoneMost of Us Need More Than Information—We need a MessageGod Gives Sending MessagesA Sending Message Can Have Three Main Aspects frompurposetoward Sending...
God’s Mission Needs to Go to the Whole World: Appropriate Sending in a Polycentric World
Polycentric Sending in a Polycentric WorldCan we Answer George Verwer’s Plea?We Can Embrace the ‘Whole’ and be Free from the ‘Every’One Priority is Not EnoughCan we Make Sending Messages ‘More Strategically Thoughtful’?Sending Messages Should be...
God’s Mission Still Needs Missionaries
Appropriate Sending In A Polycentric World If ‘Mission’ Involves the Whole ChurchAnd if ‘Mission’ Includes the Whole GospelThen Let Appropriate Sending Continue to take us to the Whole WorldToday’s World is Again PolycentricOur Work is...
God’s Work to Redeem and Transform People Involved in Homosexualit
How does God redeem and transform people involved in homosexuality? I believe that God does this work of redemption and transformation by calling our attention to the real problem faced by all human beings, by dealing effectively with this real...
Gospel Fluency in a World of Skepticism
In every generation, the church is called to rediscover the gospel—not because its message has changed, but because the world around us has. Today, we find ourselves in a cultural moment marked by rising secularism, post-truth narratives, and...
Heal the Sick and Tell Them That the Kingdom of God is Near Them
‘Parish Nursing has been the most significant ministry in mission that I have encountered in 25 years of leadership’ (experienced minister, leading a church in the UK).' If your church could employ or appoint someone to serve alongside you, someone...
Heavenly Collaboration
What Unity at the Congress Taught Me about Collaboration in Texas I experienced that diversity of people with unity of mission in a more personal, powerful way. when I came home from Congress, we cast a vision for our youth ministry to reach every...
Help! I’m Scared of Younger Leaders
Classic Missiological Paradigms For Generational Partnerships Conflict between generations is as old as the Bible. In it, we see a grasping father-in-law take advantage of his son-in-law (Gen 29-31). We see older generations completely failing to...
Hinduism: An Infographic
The influence of Hindu philosophy and worldview has spread globally through the adoption of pluralism, new age philosophies, yoga and vedic sciences. For more information go to Hinduism: An Infographic on the Lausanne Movement website. The above...