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What Does it Mean to Be Human?
Rapid technological advancements and the redefinition of human sexual identity are challenging previously held beliefs regarding human distinctiveness. These shifts are driving this generation’s defining question, ‘What does it mean to be...
What is Sustainable?
The preceding century has seen a rise of more products, more people, more energy, more debt, more work, and more expectations. This burden of more has led the world and the church to begin to ask, ‘What is sustainable?’ Creation Care Wealthy...
What is Fair and Just?
As Scripture teaches, all humans are made in the image of God and are worthy. Yet, globally, not all humans are treated equally. With an increasing consciousness of discrimination, the world and the church continue to ask, ‘What is fair and...
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...
To My Younger Self
Reflections from Lausanne 1974 to Seoul-Incheon, 2024, Tuvya Zaretsky I found my journal from July 1974. I can’t believe the memories from attending the first Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Switzerland. I was 27 and I had known life...
What Are the Emerging Demographics?
Looking forward to 2050, major economic and population demographic changes promise to shape global culture. As the church faithfully lives out the great commission in a contextualized way, it must ask, ‘What are the effects of the new emerging...
What is the Foundation of Trust?
The validity of the gospel message is independent of individuals or institutions; however, when those who share the good news are not trusted, the gospel is questioned. Globally, there is a perceived rise in distrust that is dynamically shaping...
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...
What is the Source of Hope?
The Christian gospel is a message of hope for all. However, it is not the only promoted avenue of ‘hope’ in our contemporary world. From competing world religions to secular ambitions and pleasures, the world is continually asking, ‘What is...
The Gospel for Every Person
Picture a future where the radiant ideals of the Great Commission and the Great Commandment reshape our reality—a world where the intrinsic desires and aspirations of every follower of Christ resonate with Christ’s timeless command to go forth...
What is Polycentric Christianity?
Christianity is a dynamic and living faith which has experienced notable global shifts in the last 100 years, and including the growth of Christianity in the Global South, the rise of Pentecostalism, and the continued addition of denominations,...
The Legacy of John Stott through the Lausanne Movement
John Stott was a colossus. As Jim Packer said on hearing news of his death in 2011, ‘He had no peer, and we should not look for a successor.’ As decades pass, history will further unfold the extent of his influence on theological thinking, on...
YLGen Impact Report
Five years since YLG2016 — Continuing in the Great Story The most important long-term strategic investment for any entity or endeavor is people. For the Lausanne Movement as we look forward to our next major global congress in 2024, and beyond to...
Pragmatism or Promise—Which Way for Young Africans in Mission?
Lessons from Haggai ‘Who of you is left who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing?’ (Haggai 2:3, NIV) In May 2022, there was an exciting book launch in East Africa and other parts...
Historical Overview III
The development of the views and practices of the church during the Middle Ages, the Reformation and early post-Reformation times with regard to the demonic and especially the question of possession and exorcism is marked both by continuity and...
North American Case Study: An Overview of Spiritual Warfare Literature
When one takes into account the books, tapes, conferences, seminars, extension courses, etc., that are available on spiritual warfare in North America it is absolutely staggering. How do you sort the good from the bad? A quick overview of the types...
Cape Town 2010 youtube videos
Multiplex Building A Generation Of Leaders How to Build a Generation of Leaders - Christlike Leadership - Branko BjelajacHow to Build a Generation of LeadersHow to Build a Generation of Leaders - Jane Overstreet Communicating To Oral Learners Grant...
Orality: The Embodied Word in the Age of AI: Part 2
How Christians Should React to AI Development As new software and platforms seek to emulate human communication, orality, described as communication that relies on the spoken and embodied word, is at the very heart of both the constructive and...