It takes the whole church to take the whole Gospel to the whole world
“It will take the whole church to take the whole Gospel to the whole world,” urged Douglas Birdsall, new Executive Chair of the bi-annual Lausanne Internatioanl Leadership Meeting which met earlier this year in Hungary.
Nearly 400 delegates from 60 nations explored new ways of bringing about world evangelization as well as the many challenges for mission.
“We are here to think of ways in which we can … powerfully, compellingly articulate the changeless truth about God in a radically, rapidly changing world,” he said. “Global challenges require global conversations to find global solutions.”
A post-Christian, post-modern, pluralistic world was one such challenge, he said, and was compelling the church to re-think the way it presents Jesus Christ as the way the truth and the life in a “new time”.
“It will take the whole church to take the whole Gospel to the whole world,” he said, adding that it was time to find a new equilibrium no longer based on power, wealth, prestige or position but rather on shared calling, vision, resources and mutual respect. “I trust we will become a community of grace more and more,” he said.
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