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(image for) God’s Work to Redeem and Transform People Involved in Homosexualit

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...
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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...
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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...
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Homosexuality and the Church: Why the Church Must Speak Into the Lives of Those Impacted by Homosexuality

Homosexuality is a Worldwide, Cross-cultural IssueWhy Should the Church Care about the Issue of Homosexuality?Christianity Does Not Prevent HomosexualityMinistering to Those Struggling Within the ChurchWhy Homosexuality is More Than Just Sinful...
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Hope for the Christian Church Through Global Incarnational Partnerships

Biblical Examples of Global PartnershipsContemporary Examples of Global PartnershipsAssets and Challenges for the Development of Global Partnerships For more information go to Hope for the Christian Church Through Global Incarnational Partnerships ...
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How would Jesus Build These Products?

Transforming Workplace Ministry in Silicon Valley This article by Job Naibei is about ‘Andy’, who is in digital technology. Andy considers his work as a rare opportunity to give a Christ-centred approach in any design making process and putting...
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Incarnational Leadership as Servanthood

Cultures in Conversation with Jesus ‘Leadership is cause and everything else is effect’, quotes Ghanaian scholar and former public administrator, Professor Stephen Adei. Many theories of leadership— democratic, transactional, transformational,...
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Inspirations and Motivations for a Cosmopolitan Academic Vision

Justice, Spiritual Formation, and Worldview Engagement The Need for Christian Cosmopolitanism and Pursuing a World Christianity In this article by Peter Schuurman, he discusses in detail 3 topics less often discussed in some Christian scholarly...
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Is There A Future for Proclamation Evangelism?

How Does the Church Implement Proclamation Evangelism in Our Day? The need to proclaim Jesus remains a priority until Jesus comes again. Blair Carson, who served with Billy Graham in his international work for 26 years, follows all the biblical...
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Japa Witnesses

Brain Drain or Migrating Witnesses? Missiological studies is heavily loaded with European and Western vocabulary and languages. This is partly because of the way the history of mission has been written and developed with a focus on mission from the...
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Kingdom Stewardship

Equipping Disciples, Mobilizing Resources, and Utilizing Technology to Advance God’s Mission in the WorldKingdom Stewardship: Christ-Centered Steward DiscipleshipKingdom Stewardship: Technology and the Internet in the Christ Following World For...
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Latin America Transitions from Mission Field to Mission Force

The Latin America Missions Story Dave Miller, an experienced missionary in the region, shares historical details behind Latin America’s notable achievement as the third largest missionary force in the world with 40 thousand workers on the field...
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Lausanne Caribbean at CONECAR – 17- 20 October 2011

The Lausanne Movement Caribbean Group met twice in Guyana at CONECAR 2011, the tenth Conference of Evangelicals in the Caribbean. CONECAR is the acronym for Conference of Evangelicals in the Caribbean and is the premier event hosted by the...
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Lausanne Movement 50th Anniversary Call

On the day the First Lausanne Congress concluded 50 years ago, we held a special online event to commemorate this milestone. This recorded call offers a chance to reflect on God’s faithfulness, celebrate the Lausanne Movement’s impact on global...
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Leadership Succession and the Future of Mission

Letting the next generation step up Allen Yeh analyzes the generational differences and suggests a number of practical steps in handling these differences, paving the way for smooth leadership transitions in mission today. ‘We need to pass on the...
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Let the Church Declare and Display Christ Together

The Lausanne Movement endeavours to see a global mission movement by the global church which is intercultural, intergenerational, with different professional backgrounds without the sacred and secular divide, polycentric and polyphonic with men and...
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Loving Our Global Neighbour

The Church Can Inspire Climate Action in a Changing World God’s love for the needy and vulnerable has inspired Christians throughout history to stand against suffering, persecution, and injustice. From the abolition of slavery in the United...
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Media Messages Matter: Christ, Truth, and the Media

Media and technology: introductory reflectionsFrom media and technology to media messages matter Media messages matter: a missional frameworkEnabling media engagement: gospel truth and truth criteria as a foundationEncountering media messages: the...
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Ministering to the Scattered Peoples

People have been on the move from time immemorial. Very few people today live in the same geographical location where their ancestors originated. If we think long and hard we will realize that most of us come from somewhere else, even if it was...
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Missing Peoples: The Unserved “One-Fourth” World: Especially Buddhists, Hindus & Muslims

LOST SHEEP, LOST COINS, LOST PEOPLESHIDDEN PEOPLES – THE FORGOTTEN FOURTHCHALLENGESA WAY FORWARDSTOP SPIRITUAL INJUSTICELOST AND FOUND? NOT YET! For more information go to Missing Peoples: The Unserved “One-Fourth” World: Especially Buddhists,...
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Missional Communities: Declaring and Displaying Christ, Together!

Trained in the psychotherapeutic methodology of Dance Movement Therapy, former national newscaster Renelle Snelleksz has seen lives transformed through the liberating movements and discipline of dance amongst a wide variety of cases including sex...
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Missional People: A Sabbatical, Sent-out, and Sustained Community

‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the...
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Muslim Followers of Jesus?

Can one be a Muslim and a follower of Jesus? Is that an oxymoron? How should Bible-believing Christians evaluate this? For more information go to
(image for) North American Case Study: An Overview of Spiritual Warfare Literature

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...
(image for) Orality: The Embodied Word in the Age of AI – Part 1

Orality: The Embodied Word in the Age of AI – Part 1

A Study of God’s Pattern for Communicating His Message As Christians strategize to inhabit digital spaces, it cannot be at the exclusion of incarnating the love of God in actual physical places. This study of biblical orality is a timely reminder...
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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...
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Overcoming Barriers to Kingdom Collaboration through the Gospel of Peace

Overcoming Division through the Cross of Christ Overcoming division     The text points to an often-overlooked truth: Christ has achieved something socially on the cross. Christ brings Jew and Gentile—divided, separated,...
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Partnering in the Body of Christ toward a New Global Equilibrium

The mission of God- Pursuing global equilibrium or world evangelization? God’s powerGod’s missionGod’s resources The redemptive purpose of God- Reconciliation as the basis of our partnership The call to reconciliationThe call to “death to...
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People at Work: Preparing to be the Whole Church

One of the largest ‘unactivated’ peoples’ groups that spans across all nations and continents is the workplace where most of the world’s populations is actively engaged in earning income to support their families. Within all segments of the...
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Poverty And Wealth

Mission and “signs of the times”Poverty and missionThe faces of povertyPoverty and the EnvironmentTime to Act For more information go to Poverty And Wealth on the Lausanne Movement website. The above link opens in a new tab.
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