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Following Jesus as the Truth: Postmodernity and Challenges of Relativism
To proclaim Jesus of Nazareth as Lord and Saviour is to make an absolute and universal truth claim. When the church declares that he is the way to the truth about God and eternal life, she is making a statement about reality that is true for...
Following Jesus in the Globalized Marketplace
I. God and the Marketplace II. Saints and the Marketplace III. The Church and the Marketplace For more information go to Following Jesus in the Globalized Marketplace on the Lausanne Movement website. The above link opens in a new tab.
Following Jesus as his Community in the Broken World of Ethnic Identity
I. Defining Ethnicity II. Ethnes in Modern Thought III. Contemporary Explosion of Ethnic Consciousness IV. Ethnes in the Biblical Story of God’s Mission V. Ethnes in Modern Evangelical Missiology VI. Globalisation, Urbanisation, and the Ethnic...
Following Jesus in Contexts of Power and Violence
I. Followers of Jesus and Christendom II. The Clash of Civilizations III. Following Jesus in a World of Violent Conflict For more information go to Following Jesus in Contexts of Power and Violence on the Lausanne Movement website. The above link...
Following Jesus in a World of Suffering and Violence
Suffering is a fact of life for many people in our world. With advances in our time of global communication and information technology, countless stories of horror, pain and suffering are brought daily into our living rooms. Whenever we switch on...
Case Study: Overseas Filipino Workers
Globalization has engendered the phenomenal growth of transnational economic migration, with its opportunities and heartaches. The economic interdependence of countries has resulted not only in the exchange of goods but also in the exchange of...
‘The Whole Gospel’: Lausanne Reflects on its Own Vision
‘THE WHOLE CHURCH taking the whole gospel to the whole world’. This is the phrase with which the Lausanne Covenant (1974) sums up the meaning of evangelization. It is a resounding triplet that has become an unofficial motto of the Lausanne...
The Gospel and the Achievement of the Cross
I. The Centrality of the Cross II. Biblical Perspectives on the Cross and Salvation III. The Achievement of the Cross For more information go to The Gospel and the Achievement of the Cross on the Lausanne Movement website. The above link opens in a...
Signs, Wonders, and Ministry: the Gospel in the Power of the Spirit
This article examines the inseparable relationship between the Holy Spirit and the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The subject matter is considered from the viewpoint of contemporary Christianity in the global south, particularly, African-led...
The Gospel and Ethics
Why do evangelicals draw such a sharp distinction between faith as cognition and faith as a way of life? Given our Lord’s teaching, example, and depictions of the final judgment, it is appropriate to begin with the reminder that the New Testament...
‘Unexpected’ Guests at God’s Banquet Table – Gospel in Mission and Culture
Split cod and ale. That is all they have eaten for years on end. But today the sisters’ table is sumptuously spread with exquisite fare that awakens all senses. With lavish love the servant Babette has spent even her last cent on this banquet. And...
The Gospel in Historical Reception
Central to the theological reflection of the Lausanne movement has always been the realization that the gospel is rooted in real history and the gospel has been received within particular historical cultural contexts through the ages. The gospel...
Case Study: How Will We Know When the Holy Spirit Comes? The Question of Discernment
When the Apostle Paul stood in front of the Areopagus, he began by connecting with the spirituality of the ancient Athenians, affirming their search for God and the spiritual awareness of their poets. Paul attempted to use the Athenians’ spiritual...
‘The Whole Church’: Statement of the Lausanne Theology Working Group
The starting point for our ecclesiology must be the same as for our theology of mission and for our understanding of the world. Mission, the church, and the world all belong to God. The concept of missio Dei reminds us that our mission flows from...
The Whole Church – A Brief Biblical Survey
I The Origin of the Church II The people of God in the Old Testament III The People of God in the New Testament IV Pictures of the Church For more information go to The Whole Church – A Brief Biblical Survey on the Lausanne Movement website. The...
Biblical Perspectives on the Role of Immigrants in God’s Mission
We know that throughout history we have seen great movements of peoples and groups from one place to another. This includes the Latin American continent where the history of many peoples, ancient and modern, tells the stories of periodic migrations...
The Whole Church as a Transformed and Transforming Society
When evangelicalism was defined at the international conference convened in London in 1846 to establish the Evangelical Alliance the definition explicitly excluded an ecclesiological statement. The reason for this was that the great evangelical...
Ethnicity and The People of God
There is one element of our biblical understanding and Christian speech that must be revised at least within popular circles of Christianity, which includes, by the way, the majority of Christians around the world: the identity of the people of God...
‘Unwanted Sectarians’: Spirit, Migration and Mission in an African-led Mega-Size Church in Eastern Europe
The physical signs of the Southern shift in Christianity’s centre of gravity from the Northern to the Southern continents include the rise of immigrant churches in Europe and North America. The recession of Christian presence in the former...
New Faces of the Church: An Indian Case Study
‘Matta, Pitta, Guru, Devam,’ is an oft quoted maxim in India. It simply means, ‘Mother, Father, Teacher, God,’ and signifies the order of priority that many adopt in their lives. In the Indian view of life, therefore, fidelity to one’s...
Lessons from My Daughter: Reflections of Church and Ethics
ON NOVEMBER 23, 1993 we were suddenly thrown into the unknown country of people with disabilities and their families. Our daughter Karis was born with cerebral palsy. For more information go to Lessons from My Daughter: Reflections of Church and...
Way of Hope in Cambodia
Cambodia’s approximately 12 million people have suffered decades of civil war, including genocide under the Khmer Rouge holocaust, where as many as 2 million people died. This extended period of destruction has devastated Cambodia’s social,...
A Neopentecostal Experience of Aimara people
The distinctive nature of Aimara culture For more information go to A Neopentecostal Experience of Aimara people on the Lausanne Movement website. The above link opens in a new tab.
The Whole World – Statement of the Lausanne Theology Working Group (Beirut 2010)
A. The World In The Bible B. The World of God’s Creation C. The World of Cultures and Religions D The World Of Sin And Redemption For more information go to The Whole World – Statement of the Lausanne Theology Working Group (Beirut 2010) on the...
The World in the Bible
The idea of ‘gaining the whole world’ while ‘losing your own soul’ crossed my mind as I struggled to work through a concordance search on the biblical words translated ‘world’ and related words and concepts. It was a most illuminating...
Towards a Missiology of Caring for Creation
Over recent years far more attention has been given to the creation within an understanding of the redeeming purposes of God. It is fair to say that an effective consensus has been reached among evangelical theologians that God’s redemption in...
The Global Public Square
The World Missionary Conference that met in Edinburgh in 1910 recognized the ‘world’ as a single unit, united not merely scientifically (one human species living on planet Earth) and technologically (‘organically knit by the nerves of electric...
Can Christians Belong to More than One Religious Tradition?
Perspectives on Non- Christian Religions This paper seeks to explore the notion of multireligious belonging and evaluate whether it is theologically possible for a Christian to follow Christ while retaining some form of identification with one’s...
Case Studies
Peacemaking amidst urban violence in Brazil – C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell (Brazil) It all started with a flirt between two teenagers on a dusty street of Londrina, Brazil. It ended with one person dead, another death-listed and an entire family on...
Mission with Children at Risk
Born to a teenage mother and an adopted father, Jesus started his human life in extremely uncertain circumstances. In order to fulfil the economic demands of an oppressive empire, his parents were required to leave their community and travel to...