The Unfinished Task (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #9)
Today was the day I was waiting for. All week we have been hearing about the face of the global church and how to…
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“If you love what God loves you will go to the cities” (Lausanne/Cape Town Memo 2010, Memo #8)
“If you love what God loves, you will go to the cities.” This is what Tim Keller told global church leaders at Cape Town…
Cyber Attack on Cape Town 2010 (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010, Memo #7)
On Thursday, October 21, 2010, the organizers of Cape Town 2010 reported that computer hackers have disrupted the IT system for the Congress. They…
Suffering to Alleviate Suffering: The Love of Christ Compels Us (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #6)
Bearing witness to Christ and loving people in his name is often costly and leads to suffering. That was the case with Tom Little…
The Color of Christianity: The New Diversity Meets the Church (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #6)
The dominant impression you have when you walk around the halls here at the Lausanne Congress III in Cape Town is that those who…
The Good News of Reconciliation in a Broken World (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #5)
We live in a deeply broken world. Even today in the news, German chancellor Angela Merkel announced that multiculturalism has utterly failed in Germany. …
Sitting With The Persecuted Church (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #4)
In tonight’s meetings at Cape Town 2010, they took a lot of time to highlight the suffering of the persecuted church. But what was…
A Plea to Uphold Truth and the Truth of Christ (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #3)
The first official day of the Lausanne Congress began with a declaration of the truthfulness of truth and the truthfulness of Jesus Christ. Our…
Edinburgh 1910 and Cape Town 2010: (Lausanne Memo #2)
There has been a lot made here of the fact that the Lausanne Congress at Cape Town 2010 meets on the 100th anniversary of…
Globalization and the Church (Lausanne/Cape Town 2010 Memo #1)
It struck me that I have been flying to Europe now for 52 years. My first plane trip to Europe was as a three…