contextualization

The Fourth Lausanne Congress is underway in Seoul and released “The Seoul Statement” this week. The congress marks it origin in 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland when John Stott and Billy Graham gathered global evangelical leaders for an “international congress on world evangelization.” Similar meetings occurred in Manila (1989) and Cape […]

The Seoul Statement

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This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Lausanne Movement. Evangelicals throughout the world are planning to gather for the fourth congress in Seoul. Earlier today I participated in the movement’s release of the “State of the Great Commission Report.” This precursor to September’s gathering is to provide an account […]

Lausanne State of the Great Commission Report

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National Geographic Documentary Films is scheduled to release The Mission next week in the US and Canada. This film is about John Chau who was killed in 2018 when attempting to share the gospel with a North Sentinel Island people group. His death made international headlines. Of course, the world […]

National Geo. “The Mission” – Death of John Chau

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Many seminaries and divinity schools are concerned about the present and future of theological education. In layperson’s terms, this means a concern for more students enrolled as numbers have been on the decline. Last year, the Association of Theological Schools reported 57% of their member schools noted a declining enrollment. […]

An Overlooked Reason for Decline in Seminary Enrollment

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I launched this blog in 2010 as a means to release a massive report on evangelical concentrations in the United States and Canada. Such was based on data housed at The ARDA. Over the years, I have attempted to share the updated evangelical percentages and church to population ratios. While […]

Least Reached US Metro Areas

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U.S. Religion Census released very important data today. I’ll be brief as I have not had time to examine it but wanted to share this with you as soon as possible. Such is very important information. Go HERE to find it. In 2010, I launched this blog to share my […]

US Religion Census Data Available

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