After some participants at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization took offense to a plenary speaker’s comments on the Gaza war, Valdir Steuernagel, a senior figure in the movement, spoke up on behalf of Palestinian participants, articulating their anguish of feeling abandoned by the global Church.
The first disciples were mainly workers in various trades and the workplace still offers a holy ground to be a “priestly presence” to witness for Jesus, delegates heard at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.
As the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization came to a close, the Lausanne leadership sent a note to the more than 5,000 participants inviting them to provide feedback to the Seoul Statement that had been published at the beginning of the event.
Talking about his journey to becoming the chief architect of the 2010 Cape Town Commitment, Chris Wright sat down with CDI to talk about the theological dynamics that have influenced Lausanne over the past 50 years and highlight what he considers to be key issues for the Church today, and what he hopes to see come out of Lausanne 4.
The concern that church leaders have shown for Christians suffering for their faith since the first Lausanne Congress in 1974 has grown so much that most of a day and night was devoted to persecution at the fourth Congress in South Korea on Wednesday.
After releasing the Seoul Statement just before the start of the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism this week, the document’s editorial team adjusted two paragraphs that speak to the issue of the Church’s response to homosexuality.
The Seoul Statement released by the Lausanne Movement at the Fourth Global Congress on World Evangelism is not a new, stand-alone response to the missional challenges that the global Church is facing today. Instead, it builds on the legacy of the Lausanne Covenant, the Manila Manifesto and the Cape Town Commitment.
Billy Wilson called on Evangelicals to open their hearts to being “accelerated” by the Holy Spirit to witness for Christ to keep pace with a fast-changing world grappling with speedy developments in areas of general knowledge, technology, inventions and science.
“Will there be room for new voices, will there be space for surprise?” asked Valdir Steuernagel in a speech he gave at a meeting of Latin American leaders in the lead up to Lausanne’s Fourth Global Congress (Lausanne 4) in Seoul, South Korea, that begins Sunday.
A personal tribute has been paid to one of England’s most beloved Christian comedians Steve Legg after he died on Monday following a brave battle against cancer lasting 17 months.
