In just two weeks time, I will have the privilege of being in Seoul, South Korea, with 5,000 other Christian leaders from every country on earth for the 50th Anniversary of the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization. This is only the 4th gathering in the last 50 years.
If you’re wondering what the Lausanne Movement is all about and how it started, watch this brief 15-minute video of David Platt interviewing Michael Oh, the CEO and Global Executive Director of the Lausanne Movement.
The first Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization occurred in 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Billy Graham, John Stott, and other leading global evangelicals gathered key evangelical leaders from 150 countries to strategize how to work together to fulfill the Great Commission.
After that first gathering in 1974, TIME Magazine wrote in their August 6 issue that the first gathering of the Lausanne Congress was “possibly the widest-ranging meeting of Christians ever held.” It went on to say, “Brought together largely through the efforts of the Rev. Billy Graham, some 2,400 Protestant Evangelical leaders from 150 countries gathered for a ten-day International Congress of World Evangelization that served notice of the vigor of conservative, resolutely biblical, fervently mission-minded Christianity.”
Foundational to the ministry of Global Training Network is the belief that one of the most effective ways to see a nation reached and discipled with the Gospel of Jesus Christ is by training the Indigenous pastors and leaders (who already know the language, culture, and customs), so they can then go on to equip their congregations to evangelize and disciple their family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers for God’s glory.
Please join me in praying for this strategic endeavor in Seoul, where Christian leaders from every country on earth will gather to strategize and collaborate to help fulfill the Great Commission in the years ahead.
Jesus said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20 NIV