Evangelical Missiological Society

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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The Evangelical Missiological Society is scheduled to meet this week in Dallas on the campus of Dallas Theological Seminary. The annual theme is “Educating for Contemporary Mission,” and I expect to hear a number of excellent presentations of original research. I have been a member of EMS since the early […]

Evangelical Missiological Society

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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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I think I have been a member of the Evangelical Missiological Society for 24 years. In 1988, Donald McGavran extended a challenge to David Hesselgrave to start an evangelical, missiological, academic society to address contemporary issues related to the advancement of the gospel throughout the world. Missiology had morphed to […]

Educating for Contemporary Mission

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