The fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization is rapidly approaching. This is the first time Jay Matenga is participating. He notes that a tumult of conversation is already emerging and hopes that participants will keep their eyes on Jesus through a time of robust discussion—maintaining unity in the essentials, liberty on secondary issues, and love throughout.
Are your desires and plans aligned? If so, what might it say about what you really want? How aligned is that yearning to God's will? If it is, there you will find your vocation. If it is not, that might be cause for repentance. Read on so you can figure it out before you die.
The Bible Society-New Zealand is planning to distribute 5,000 Bibles and New Testaments in 70 languages to chaplaincies in the country to help people in prisons and hospitals. “Together, we bring the Bible to individuals who may have never encountered it before.”
What if we could be effective in helping unchurched people become followers of Jesus without learning scripts, without steering conversations, without campaigns, crusades or anything else that seems like a relationship destroyer?
Dr Paul Windsor is a global leader who loves serving others and looking for ways to resource them with new ideas. In this instance he gifts us with an autobiographical reflection of almost six decades of his life and some of the key ways he has learned to live and understand life and ministry through each decade.
In the mudslinging barrage of the culture wars, ‘woke’ has become increasingly difficult to define. It was originally conceived as a signifier for those who were aware of (or ‘awake to’) systematic racial and sexual discrimination. Recently, it’s become a buzzword used to mock those who believe in these systematic injustices. Rather than uncritically dismissing the issues, Christians would do well to learn how to distinguish between a theory and a worldview.
The story of God is a grand biblical story of how God has revealed himself to humankind and how he has redeemed us from fear and death and has planned a future for the whole cosmos. It’s a monumental story of love and brokenness, fear and hope, truth and lies, and the unending resolve of our loving God and his intention to save all that he has created. And we need to tell it better.
1-in-10 teenagers surveyed had experienced homelessness in Australia in the past year, according to a 2023 youth survey by Mission Australia, a national Christian charity that revealed the stark figures for its ‘The Unfair Divide’ youth homelessness report published on August 1.
Keep sharing Jesus within a 'circle of love' to peoples in the Pacific region was a key theme of the Assemblies of God, as they commemorated the 50th anniversary of gospel witnessing in the Cook Islands. Commenting to Christian Daily International, Paul Kauri, AOG General Superintendent for Cook Islands, explained the unique missional challenges for believers who are based in the heart of the Pacific Ocean with 15 atolls spread out over two million square kilometers.
Immigration is a prominent and integral aspect of our global society, yet it remains a deeply contentious and polarizing issue. Countries are struggling to manage their borders as people take dangerous and irregular paths to cross them. Many believe that immigration needs to be reduced or restricted, leading to protests and counter-protests in various nations. Concerns are also rising about the rapid cultural and societal changes immigration brings. A fresh focus on integration can help.
Some of us are always looking for a place to fully belong. We might be an insider of different groups, but there does not seem to be a place where we are fully understood or where we feel we can just be without pretense. We live with the expectancy of a better place where our investment in belonging is fully worthwhile. On the edge of the inside we find Jesus who is the architect of that place that we are yearning for.
Hundreds of Evangelical leaders have signed a statement outlining their shared beliefs about the relationship between faith and politics, encouraging Christians to consider each candidates' "character and not merely their promises or political success" ahead of the 2024 election.
