By Helene NSIN OUM May 2006 What is World Evangelism? Evangelism is a way to gain unbelievers to God. We cannot evangelize without prayer. Prayer is the key ingredient in evangelism; we must pray before, during and after we tell others about Christ (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Fasting is choosing to remove the distractions, giving the […]
By Doug Birdsall April 2008 Today we are unable to look at our world without seeing the tremendous and growing contributions of the Global South. Geopolitics, economics, finance, education, sports, fashion—not a day goes by without touches and influences from the Majority World. We are truly living in a global age. This is especially true […]
By Christopher L. Heuertz In a little, broken-down, poor excuse of a church building at the bottom of the Kroo Bay slum in Sierra Leone is the Church. It is where God is. Read Article >> Simple Spirituality. The Spirit of Francis: A Prophetic Sign of Hope in a Slum Community By Christopher L. Heuertz […]
By Samuel Escobar By the 1960s, evangelical leaders in Africa, Asia, and Latin America started the quest for a theology of evangelism that would match their activism but also respond to the tremendous social tensions of that decade. This continues today. Read Article >> Imperative of Transformational Discipleship in the Global Church Pursuit of the […]
By Bradley Coon April 2008 In the April 2007 issue of Lausanne World Pulse, I wrote an article entitled “One Hundred Years of Christian Growth.” The article used visual aids to compare the growth of Christianity both externally (with population growth) and internally (between various ecclesiastical blocs). These figures captured the monumental changes to the […]
By Kirk Franklin God has charged the Church—local, denominational, and universal—with the responsibility to translate, teach, and reach all people with the Bible. Read Article >> The Challenge of Missions in the Twenty-first Century By Stephen M. Davis Four ways in which our thinking must change in order to meet the challenges inherent in cross-cultural […]
AROUND THE WORLD: Over Four Million Bibles and NTs Handed Out Bible League workers handed out more than four million Bibles and New Testaments in 2007 to millions of people worldwide. Additionally, more than three million Bible studies were completed and more than 539,000 individuals became part of a church. (Bible League) AROUND THE WORLD: […]
By Bradley Coon April 2008 Most notably, during the first five years of this century, Christianity as a whole grew faster than the global population. A quick glance at the continental growth rates shows that much of this growth came from Asia and Eastern Europe. Eastern Asia’s Christian growth rate was fueled by the continued […]
