The Lausanne Movement is extending an invitation to evangelicals throughout the world to engage together over some of the most critical issues of our time bearing on world evangelisation. So that as many people as possible can benefit from the 3rd Lausanne Conference on world evangelisation taking place in October 2010, once each month Lausanne will publish an article a month on topics that relate to the Congressconference. visionnetwork is a partner with Lausanne through its membership in the WEA.

“Did Jesus wear designer robes?” is the question explored in the second article of the global conservation series in preparation for the Third Lausanne Congress to be held in Capetown in 2010.

Professor J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu writes that the growth of non-Western Christianity across Africa is largely due to the New Pentecostal Churches. “Upwardly-mobile youth are drawn to their dynamic worship styles and pursuit of wealth and success. The prosperity gospel has found fertile soil as it resonates with tribal religion. Prosperity promoters raise serious theological concerns. The gospel of Jesus Christ neither glorifies poverty nor prosperity.”

To read the full article, click here.  To join the conversation log on to www.lausanne.org/conversation It is hoped the discussion will spread further through such means as blogs, forums, and interactive tools, such as Twitter and Facebook.

The first article in the series, by Christopher Wright, explored the question of the whole church taking the whole gospel to the whole world. Click here to read.

Article 2, by J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, asks: "Did Jesus wear designer clothes?"

Article 3, by Joseph Cumming, discusses Muslim Background Believers (MBB).

Article 4, Partners at the family table, is a conversation with Valdir Steuernagel on partnership in mission.

Article 5, Sowing Subversion in the Field of Relativism, is by Singaporean theologian Mark Chan.

Article 6, Asking the Beautiful Question, by Joel Van Dyke and Kris Rocke of the Center for Transforming Mission in Tacoma, Washington.

Article 7, Mission Fields on the Move, by J. Samuel Escobar.

Article 8, The face-to-face Gospel and the death of distance, by Al Erisman.

Article 9, Whole Earth evangelism, by Scott Sabin.

Article 10, To serve is to suffer, by Ajith Fernando.

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