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Recommendations From an Anthropologist and L4 Listening Team Member
As an anthropologist trained to analyze qualitative data from interviews and participant observation, I often refer to myself as a professor, author, and listener. I was thrilled, therefore, to learn that I was selected to volunteer at Lausanne 4 on the Listening Team.
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Where Is the ‘Child in the Midst’? A Response to L4’s Children-at-Risk Report
The Children-at-Risk Issue Group was formed to equip the church and para-church organizations to bring the whole gospel to children-at-risk, advocate on their behalf, and invite them into meaningful participation on mission.
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Lausanne 4: Together in Christ, Yet Diverse
As a young intercultural studies scholar from India who lives in the USA and serves in theological higher education, attending Lausanne Four (4) in Seoul-Incheon was an exciting experience.
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Evangelism in the 2024 Seoul Statement
After reading the Seoul Statement, I am concerned that the Lausanne Movement existing for World Evangelization may be the least clear document on world evangelization in the entirety of its existence.
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Lausanne: In Need of a Plan
The fourth Lausanne Congress exposed that we are a family with many disagreements still. These disagreements troubled some, but they comforted me.
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Heralds of Hope: Reclaiming the Power of Proclamation Evangelism for Today’s Global Church
The Seoul Statement, building on earlier foundational documents like the Lausanne Covenant, Manila Manifesto, and Cape Town Commitment, became an example of the assumed priority of evangelism rather than a stated one.
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A Sri Lankan’s Reflections on L4 and Integral Mission
The Lausanne movement, since its inception in 1974, has been about world evangelization. However, evangelization understood as one mode of mission, was not to be separated from social action.
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Embodying the Great Collaboration: Reflections on the Fourth Lausanne Congress
By coordinating our efforts and making room for focused collaboration, the global church can truly live out its calling as one unified body in mission to the world.
