Lausanne World Pulse – PUBLISHER'S MEMO

By Doug Birdsall
Instructing younger leaders on leadership is vital to world evangelization in the twenty-first century. Read Article >>

Charity and Justice

By Lon Allison
How Bono and a lawyer/pastor from Malawi led a call recently for justice and charity. Read Article >>

Introducing Lausanne World Pulse!

By Lon Allison
It is with great joy and hopeful expectation that we bring you the first copy of Lausanne World Pulse—a FREE monthly, online magazine that provides you with missions and evangelism news, information and analysis. Read Article >>

The Interwoven Tasks of Prayer and Evangelism

By Lon Allison
Prayer and evangelism are not strangers, but friends. Read Article >>

(re)Defining “Cutting Edge” in an Upside-down Kingdom

By Laurie Fortunak Nichols
It is our hope that not only would we begin to see “cutting edge†in a new light marked by one life at a time, but that we might even take the next step of walking on the “bleeding edge†of evangelism and missions. Read Article >>

2010-2020: This Could Be the Start of Something Big

By Lon Allison
From the past to the present…believing God wants to do something significant in each era. Read Article >>

A Continued Commitment to the Call as World Christianity’s Center of Gravity Shifts

By Doug Birdsall
“The whole Church taking the whole gospel to the whole world” looks different, and yet remarkably the same, in light of the shift in the center of gravity of the global Church. Read Article >>

A Wideness in God’s Mercy and an Urgency to Proclaim

By Lon Allison
Humanity loved by God deserves to know God in this world, and see the world made better as a result. Read Article >>

Advancing Scripture Translation

By Doug Birdsall
As far as we have come technologically from the 1960s, languages and their translation, with all their great variety and nuances, continue to be a tremendous hurdle to overcome. Read Article >>

Aspen Glow

By Lon Allison
LWP co-publisher Lon Allison reflects on the life of Dr. Mel Lorentzen and the importance of being an “aspen-leader.” Read Article >>

Authenticity in the Christian Life?

By Naomi Frizzell
The author asks, “Are we real and authentic in our interaction with others and with the Lord?” Read Article >>

Being the Church in Different Cultures

By Doug Birdsall
Expressions of the Christian faith and how we come together are complex and varied; and yet, by the power of the Holy Spirit we can be a diverse and yet unified global Church. Read Article >>

Bringing God’s Best to Our Broken World in 2010

By Doug Birdsall
It is into this world, a very broken world, that Christ calls us to boldly follow him as his disciples and to share the good news of his love and grace. Read Article >>

Cape Town Commitment: Finding Our Place

By Naomi Frizzell
We must look at the Cape Town Commitment as a mosaic of what is before us as believers, finding our place together in the outworking of the Commitment, looking for others in the mosaic with whom we can partner. Read Article >>

Christ in Culture: At the Very Heart of the Mission of God

By Doug Birdsall
Throughout the twenty centuries of Christian history, missionaries have drawn inspiration and instruction from the model of Christ’s life and ministry. Read Article >>

Christ-like Leadership and a Passion for the Gospel in the Lausanne Movement

By Doug Birdsall
The Lausanne Movement has much to be thankful to God for in 2006. And we look forward to even greater things that God will do in 2007. Read Article >>

Christians in the Public Arena: Our Calling from God

By Doug Birdsall
Christians must work toward creatively engaging the public arena with excellence in our work and testimony. Read Article >>

Church History & World Evangelism

By Doug Birdsall
Only by looking back at our history can we be properly rooted and guided in our trajectory for the future. Read Article >>

Church Leaders in the Global South Speak on Mission and Evangelism

By Doug Birdsall
We must integrate and incorporate the voices, thoughts, and ways of the Global South into our view of global missions and evangelism. Read Article >>

Church Planting and Evangelism in the Twenty-first Century

By Doug Birdsall
The interconnected relationship between evangelism and church planting is the hallmark of a healthy Christian community. Read Article >>

Communication and the Gospel

By Doug Birdsall
In every generation, the question is, how can we more effectively communicate the truth of the gospel to all peoples? Read Article >>

Determining “As” in Building a Solid Foundation for Mission

By Lon Allison
Understanding the mission of God requires a deep knowledge of the entirety of scripture. Read Article >>

Discipleship in Its Many Forms

By Lon Allison
The costs and opportunities of discipleship are many. Allison reflects on this month’s articles related to the topic. Read Article >>

Doxological Evangelism: Learning to Share God’s Glory with the World

By Doug Birdsall
In our worship of God, we encounter his glory, and from the overflow of our worship comes the burgeoning desire to share his glory with others. Read Article >>

Engaging with Our Difficult Past through Christ Our Reconciler

By Doug Birdsall
All believers are called to be agents of hope and reconciliation in our broken and fragmented world. Read Article >>

Evangelizing Families

By Doug Birdsall
One of the most pressing needs in the Church around the world is the need to bring entire families to faith. Read Article >>

Gathered to Scatter: Raising Up the Next Generation of Leaders

By Doug Birdsall
This past summer and fall, I had the privilege of meeting with ministry leaders from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and Australia/Oceania who are all committed to the cause of world evangelization. Read Article >>

Giving the Gift of Time in Education and Training

By Lon Allison
Professors, teachers and mentors in missions, evangelism and other fields must spend one-on-one time with students. Read Article >>

Goal: Creatively Integrate Evolving Technologies

By Doug Birdsall
The challenge in evangelism now lies in how we can best utilize the different mediums effectively, especially in bridging the gap between those who have access to improved technologies and those who do not. Read Article >>

God’s Mission in the World Today

By Lon Allison
It is a breathtaking time to simply listen and watch God’s movements, much less participate in them. Read Article >>

God, the Evangelist

By Lon Allison
More than anything else, we should believe in the saving power of God the evangelist. Read Article >>

Goodbye for Now…But Stay Tuned

By Lon Allison
A few notes on the future of LWP… Read Article >>

HIV/AIDS: Engaging the Church in the Pandemic

By Lon Allison
With millions of people suffering from HIV/AIDS today, the Church must pray, give, touch, heal and above all, speak of the One who has eternal life. Read Article >>

Hope 2008 and the Gospel Message in Britain

By Lon Allison
Youth for Christ in Great Britian seeks to reach the nation through Hope 2008. Read Article >>

In the Deep Midwinter Comes the Presence and Promise of God

By Lon Allison
The truth of the Resurrection explodes out of the Gospels, refusing to sit on dusty shelves as mere doctrine. Read Article >>

In the Deep Midwinter Comes the Presence and Promise of God

By Lon Allison
The truth of the Resurrection explodes out of the Gospels, refusing to sit on dusty shelves as mere doctrine. Read Article >>

Lausanne since Cape Town

By Doug Birdsall
With the Commitment pointing the way, Lausanne presses forward in its work of world evangelization post Cape Town 2010. Read Article >>

Lausanne: From Pattaya to Port Dickson to the Future

By Tetsunao Yamamori
Lausanne has a rich history, a flourishing present and a promising future. Read Article >>

Migration and Evangelism

By Lon Allison
With the world becoming flat, how do churches, which by and large don’t even reach the people most like them, reach the people least like them? Read Article >>

News from Lausanne

By Doug Birdsall
Exciting things are happening within the Lausanne movement within the next six months. Read Article >>

Not a Small World After All: Glimpsing the Kingdom Church

By Lon Allison
Worshipping with people from all corners of the world expands one’s vision of the global Church. Read Article >>

On Migration, Diaspora, and Displaced Peoples

By Lon Allison
At Pentecost, many different ethnic groups from Europe, Asia, and Africa came to faith, and the “diaspora†of the gospel began. It continues today, around the world and in our own backyards. Read Article >>

Overcoming Barriers so that the World Would See Jesus

By Doug Birdsall
As the face of global Christianity changes, we need to be especially diligent in recognizing how to overcome barriers to the gospel. Read Article >>

Persecution of the Church: Hot, Warm, Temperate

By Lon Allison
Three types of Christian persecution…one call to follow Christ. Read Article >>

Persecution: “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”

By Lon Allison
Persecution is a given in this darkened world. We should expect it, prepare for it, resist it, and find comfort in the companionship of it. Read Article >>

Pressing on towards 2020 in Humility, Reflection, and Hope

By Doug Birdsall
Lausanne executive director looks to 2020 and discusses six hopes for the Church. Read Article >>

Reconciliation between God and Humanity

By Lon Allison
Before we focus on reconciliation between people and nations, we must remember that the most powerful portrait of reconciliation is God with humanity. Read Article >>

Reconciliation in World Evangelization

By Doug Birdsall
Our ministry is toward the reconciliation of broken persons to Christ as well as broken people groups to each other. And nowhere is reconciliation more needed than within the Church for the effective witness of the power of God to the world. Read Article >>

Reflecting on Natural Disasters: A Bridge to the Eternal

By Lon Allison
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Reflections on Lausanne and the Year Ahead

By Doug Birdsall
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Servant Leadership for the Glory of Jesus Christ

By Doug Birdsall
Before any of us can be leaders, we must first be followers. Read Article >>

Stepping Outside the Westernization of the Gospel

By Lon Allison
The Church is greatly in need of evangelists, missionaries, pastors, and theologians from non-Western cultures to carefully read and interpret scripture and life from their worldview. Read Article >>

Story-telling and the Gospel throughout Our World

By Lon Allison
Story proclamation is an art form in itself and requires a blending of the cognitive and the imagination. Read Article >>

The Church in Exile

By Lon Allison
How do we meet the needs of immigrant believers looking to connect with the Body of Christ in a distant land? Read Article >>

The Dance of Life in Rwanda

By Lon Allison
One example of reciprocal partnership in evangelism is taking place between pastors in Rwanda and the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. Read Article >>

The Finish Line Is Not the Finish

By Lon Allison
When it comes to evangelism and discipleship, the finish-line may not actually be the finish. Read Article >>

The Lausanne Movement: Seminal Issues and Emerging Leaders

By Doug Birdsall
The Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering has raised up a number of key leaders in evangelism and missions. This year’s event seeks to do the same. Read Article >>

The Next Generation: Leadership and Communicating the Gospel

By Doug Birdsall
World evangelization requires the cooperative efforts across generations. Read Article >>

The Poor, the Needy and the Hope of Heaven

By Lon Allison
The work of mercy and justice may distinguish the Church more than anything else from every other institution. Read Article >>

The Power of Integrity: The Power of Missions

By Ram Gidoomal
As we strive for integrity, we are striving to be Christ-like. This pursuit of Christ-likeness brings a greater demonstration of integrity and a greater opportunity for mission. Read Article >>

The Verbal Proclamation of the Gospel

By Doug Birdsall
Verbal proclamation must be the hallmark of a healthy Christian community today. Read Article >>

The World is Flat; What About the Church?

By Lon Allison
The resource-rich Church of the North must distribute its wealth to the resource-poor Church of the South. Read Article >>

To Hell with the “Centrisms”

By Lon Allison
The consequences of idolatrous centrism are daunting and include division in the Body, ineffectiveness in mission and evangelism, and inefficient use of resources. Read Article >>

Wanted: A GPS for Global Mission

By Lon Allison
A turn is coming…and partially has happened…in the global Church. Read Article >>

War, Genocide, Trauma…Gospel?

By Lon Allison
Although our world is filled with evil and sorrow, we can yet find hope in the promises of scripture. Read Article >>

We Have a (Personal) Story to Tell the Nations

By Doug Birdsall
While the gospel has many important communal dimensions and social implications, it is most fundamentally the story of how the person of Jesus Christ transforms individuals. Read Article >>

Where the Stranger Is Not Strange: Our Universal Need(s)

By Lon Allison
At the core of human culture lie at least two universal aspects: human needs and longings. Read Article >>

Witness and Creation Care: “The Stones Will Cry Out!”

By Lon Allison
Scripture speaks of witness in creation. As evangelicals, we must listen to what God is saying through it. Read Article >>

More than a Band-aid

By Greg Forney
It would take more fingers than I have to count all the times one of my boys has fallen down and skinned his knee, arm or other appendage. In more serious crashes (meaning it involves crying and an initial hysteria that cannot be soothed by words or hugs), the only possible cure is a quickly-delivered band-aid. Read Article >>