Lausanne Theologians Explain Seoul Statement that Surprised Congress Delegates
The Lausanne Movement’s decision to release a 97-point, 13,000-word theological statement on the inaugural day of its fourth world congress has sparked a week of debate and conversation. The seven-part treatise, which stated theological positions on the gospel, the Bible, the church, the “human person,” discipleship, the “family of nations,” and technology, went live online Read more…
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Middle East Muslims are Finding Jesus. Can They Fit Within a Weakened Church?
In the Arab world today, the war in Gaza dominates the news, with its small Palestinian Christian community caught in the crossfire. But over the last decade, ancient churches have faced persecution in Syria and Iraq, while political instability and terrorism have threatened believers in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan. Nevertheless, the church’s activity in this Read more…
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Lausanne Report: Most Missionaries Are Reaching the Reached
Today, more than 40 percent of the world has not yet been evangelized. Yet about 97 percent of the current global total of 450,000 Christian missionaries are sent to people who already have access to the gospel. Another startling fact: In 1900, more than 80 percent of the world’s Christians lived in Europe or North Read more…
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Fourth Lausanne Congress Embraces Younger Leaders, ‘Marketplace’ Christians, and Technology
This story will be updated. Steve Oh can trace his family’s Christian heritage back to the Protestant missionaries who arrived in Korea in the 1800s. “My family has been blessed by the global missionary movement,” said Oh, a Korean Australian pastor who leads Sydney Living Hope Community Church. This week, Oh is one of 5,200 Read more…
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The ‘Antioch of Asia’?
In 1983, Ed Pousson picked up Patrick Johnstone’s Operation World prayer guide and read an entry on Singapore. In it, the Southeast Asian country was described as the ‘Antioch of Asia.’ The American missionary and his Malaysian wife, Lai Kheng, had previously lived and served in Malaysia and were planning to make their home there Read more…
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Mobilizers See Millions of Future Missionaries in Overseas Filipino Workers
When Delyn Garcia moved from the Philippines to Israel in 2018 to work as a caregiver, her goal was to earn enough money for her family back home to build a house. Yet life as an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) was extremely difficult. The first year, she had to pay back the agency 1 million Read more…
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