Tag: Lausanne
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The Love of Jesus Revealed
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Hope and Peace in a Broken World
FINDING HOPE AND PEACE IN A BROKEN WORLD(Vignette 1) from OneHope Media on Vimeo. This is the first of a series of videos on Scripture in Mission that were shown at Lausanne 3. I’ll post the others over the next day or so.
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Final Reflections on Lausanne 3
There is no doubt about it, the Lausanne 3 meeting in Cape Town was a wonderful event, but it is also true that it could have been so much better if some things had been done otherwise. The experience of meeting with 4,500 Christians from all over the world was inspirational. I’ve worked in many […]
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Reflections So Far from Lausanne 3
Krish Kandiah has posted his reflections on the first three days of the Lausanne meeting. I have limited (and expensive) bandwidth, so rather than try and write up my reflections, I’m going to steal some of Krish’s. Highlights a) The Testimony of the 18 year old girl from China who told her powerful story of […]
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Body Language: Lausanne 3
There are crowds everywhere here. At coffee break and meal times there are people everywhere. If you start to chat to a friend, there will be people passing on either side of you and sometimes between you – there are LOTS of people. Sometimes, when you are chatting to someone, you notice that they are […]
Running cross-cultural, Christian meetings is difficult: really difficult. Trying to run a meeting involving 4,500 people from i have no idea how many countries and languages must be next to impossible. There are two basic challenges: how do you ensure that the richness of the multinational Church is brought into the meetings and secondly, how […]
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Lausanne in Cape Town: Monday
Well, after years of planning, the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation kicked off properly this morning. At least, I think it was this morning it feels as though it were three or four months ago! As is often the case at big conferences, the main impressions that I’m left with come from the meetings […]
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Sunday in Cape Town: Contrasts
This morning I had the wonderful privilege of being invited to attend a church service in Silver Town, a run down area of Kayelitcha; a township on the edge of cape Town. The service was about as far away as you can get from a suburban Anglican service in the UK. The building was a […]