By John Godson The reason why spiritual warfare is so important is that prayer is not only about talking to God, but about defeating the devil and his evil plans. Read Article >> To Speak of Jesus Is to Speak of Martyrdom By Thomas Schirrmacher The suffering of the Christian is distinctive because it continues […]
By Lon Allison August 2010 I recently opened the “News from around the World” section of the June/July issue of Lausanne World Pulse and found that forty percent of the news articles were focused on the persecuted Church. Consider these article titles and first lines: Algeria: Christians Stand Firm, Meet in Vandalized Church “Even on […]
By Roger Seth A lesson from a pigeon shows that when a community works together toward a common goal, lives can be saved. Read Article >> Sex Trafficking, Powerlessness, and Redemption By Jasmine May The author asks, “Is it possible that somehow, even in the center of the most inhuman abuses and violent acts by […]
By Ram Gidoomal August 2010 The mission of the newly-established Lausanne Resource Mobilization Working Group (RMWG) is to enable the global Church to discover, develop, and deploy God’s resources for world evangelization. Our vision is for a global culture of generosity and effective stewardship of God’s resources. With this in mind, we are working to […]
March 2006 By Roger Peterson March 2006 How Long Has Short-Term Been Around? Short-term mission strategies have been used as far back as the early biblical times. Moses used a short-term strategy at least twice: Consider the temporary forty-day, twelve-man fact-finding team he swiftly deployed from Kadesh into Canaan (Numbers 13-14); or his temporary five-day, […]
By Justin Long Although the overwhelming majority of the population in Eastern Europe claim to be Christian, missions to other regions of the world is rare. Read Article >> An Overview of Middle and West Africa By Justin Long Despite the challenges of AIDS, poverty, corruption and wars, Middle and Western Africa have been, and […]
By Paul Mumo Kisau Postmodernism calls for a subtler mode of evangelism. The declaration of “thus says the Lord” must be clothed in an attractive coat. Read Article >> Bible Translation in the New Millennium: The Changed and Changing Context By Paul Mumo Kisau Understanding the history of Bible translation can help Bible translators today […]
Although translation work among Wycliffe Bible Translators has been progressing faster than ever (more than 2,200 languages have at least some of the Bible in their language), at least three thousand languages still need the good news translated into their heart language. And many are in difficult-to-reach areas or where there is warfare and civil […]
By Doug Birdsall February 2007 The only way to exercise moral leadership in the work of the kingdom is through character that is exemplary and Christ-honoring. Without such character, we will not be able to gain the confidence of those we are seeking to reach with the gospel. Nor will we be able to build […]
By Keith Swartley June 2006 I had just been treated to a wonderful dinner by a group of eight Muslim high school teachers and our conversations had been warm and engaging. However, when we returned to their apartment, things turned ugly. They had prepared objections to the gospel and studied the Injil (New Testament) to […]
By Troy Carl June / July 2010 Gone are the days when mission workers could assume that our technology is more developed than that of the population we serve. Often, we are stronger on missiology than technology. Unlike those to whom we reach out, we may not be “digital natives” who navigate the world of […]
By Todd Johnson February 2007 This commentary and the accompanying table represent our twenty-third annual report on global mission prepared for the International Bulletin of Missionary Research (IBMR) each January since 1983. The full report is eight pages and includes five tables examining the total extent of Christ’s mission across the world. For this Lausanne […]
By Mark Kolo and Hannah Ibanga Virtually every tribe in Gambia can be described as unreached. Read Article >> Kingdom Advance in Gambia: A Veteran’s Perspective By Rashida Bah Modou Sanneh, head pastor of the Reformed Evangelical Church in Gambia, talks about advancing the Kingdom of God in that nation. Read Article >> Latin America […]
By Todd Johnson February 2007 The Annual Paradox: Progress or Regress? Global Table 5 presents each year data illustrating two paradoxical situations about the status of the global Christian mission—the first appearing to be undergoing remarkable progress, the second undergoing little-noted stagnation or even decline. The main global statistical categories involved are our threefold terms: […]
