A Fresh Approach to Witness For The 21st Century: A Global Perspective

The gospel is the Good News, the glorious news that God through Christ came to our planet, lived, died and rose again to take away the sin of the world. And he offers to live his dynamic life in and through us as we place our faith in him—not on the basis of our merit but as a gift of sheer unmerited grace. It’s the greatest news ever to grace our planet!
With such great news, why do so many feel inadequate when it comes to sharing their faith? Why does the church struggle in training believers to share confidently the glorious gospel? The relevance of the opening line of Rebecca Pippert’s book Out of the Salt Shaker remains the same, even after 30 years: Christians and non-Christians have something in common: we’re both uptight about evangelism.
However, while the Western church has been struggling, there has been a phenomenal explosion of growth in the global South. On any given Sunday there are more Anglicans attending church in Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania or Uganda than in Britain and America combined. Christianity’s center of gravity has moved decisively south. Yet without diminishing the joy of such remarkable growth, astute voices in the Global South express concern over what is the gospel that is being preached? Is it orthodoxy or is it sometimes a “prosperity” version?

• Getting the Story Straight
• Getting the Story Out
• Taking the Story In
• The Role of Culture
• Our Theology must impact our Methodology
• The Crisis of Truth and the proclamation of the Gospel
• Three Pronged Response to Evangelism in the global era
• Effective Witness for such a time as this

For more information go to A Fresh Approach to Witness For The 21st Century: A Global Perspective on the Lausanne Movement website.
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