By Lynn Waalkes September 2010 For more than forty years, Operation World has been the definitive prayer guide for Christians, encouraging readers to pray for the world as the first, essential step to fulfilling the Great Commission. This month, the 2010 edition of Operation World releases—the seventh edition since 1964 and the first major […]
By Samuel Escobar April 2008 As we consider the missionary pattern modeled by Jesus, and the meaning of his death and resurrection, we face the uniqueness of his person and work. The Lausanne movement that started after the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne I) had a significant impact on the practice of mission […]
By Samuel Escobar April 2008 The fruit of those labours was the development of vibrant evangelical churches in the Global South that had a great evangelistic dynamism. By the 1960s, a new generation of evangelical leaders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America started the quest for a theology of evangelism that would match their activism […]
By Samuel Escobar April 2008 Theology also has a critical and corrective function. The reference to humility, servanthood, suffering, meekness, and deprivation in the evangelistic style of Jesus must confront the warfare style that is involved in the idea of “crusades.” Fernando calls our attention to the fact that “with the breakdown of a rationalist […]
By Samuel Escobar April 2008 One of the most forceful expressions of this Christological conviction that I know of is the chapter entitled “The Scandal of Jesus” in the book The Recovery of Mission by Sri Lankan theologian Vinoth Ramachandra. Ramachandra reminds us of Jesus´ claims to enjoy a unique filial relationship with God, to […]
