Video, Copyright 2014 |All Rights Reserved. The Lausanne Covenant - Lausanne Movement However, the belief that preaching the gospel was all that really mattered was still common, especially in the United States. [411]Gospel contextualization revisited, MARC Newsletter, Number 97-3 (Sept 1997), 6. [398]Gospel contextualization revisited in MARC Newsletter, Number 97-3 (Sept 1997), 6. For them, this statement is problematic because McGavran does not acknowledge the long and complex history of the unhappy equation of the Christian faith with the culture of the Gospel proclaimer, a history dating back to Chapter 15 of the book of Acts. Trevin Wax is vice president of research and resource development at the North American Mission Board and a visiting professor at Cedarville University. [372]The Lausanne Covenant, Making Christ Known, 40. It may not display this or other websites correctly. xmp.iid:A420E98938246811822A9A469E0491C0 The Lausanne Movement emphasizes the need to contextualize the gospel. Paragraph 10 of the Covenant, as we have noted above, raised issues needing further exploration. It's not good, for sure. Many in the room disagreed. The Lausanne Covenant is a July 1974 religious manifesto promoting active worldwide Christian evangelism. Though the words continuity and discontinuity are convenient labels, they imply rigidity, and individuals seldom use either one of them to describe their own position. A leader among evangelicals in Britain, the United States and around the world, Stott was a principal framer of the landmark Lausanne Covenant (1974). Remember that the Lausanne Covenant concerns world missions, and world missions concerns more than the USA. The argument is made with Creation-based Bible Interpretation (CBBI). In the end, they locked Stott and Peter Wagner, a Fuller Seminary professor who wanted Lausanne to focus on strategies for evangelism, in a room and told them to come up with a compromise. [379] It is worth noting that Kpobi is describing the mission practice of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana in Northern Ghana at the end of the twentieth century. The second gospel is the Gospel of Grace preached to the Gentiles by the Apostle Paul, an apostle to the Son of GodChrist Jesus. The cultures as they stand are incredibly varied and rich. It probed the issue with greater depth and it provided the stimulus for further work in this area. 2,300 people, representing 150 nations, attended the Congress and were involved in the ratification of the Covenant. This Congress does not believe that Eurican culture is Gods chosen culture. On the topic of contextualization, evangelical positions represent a spectrum similar to the one observed above regarding the relationship between the Gospel and culture. This has been deemed necessary for the purposes of introducing a new generation to the voice and concerns of the speakers. Stott stayed awake for several hours that night, formulating his response to Grahams proposal. %PDF-1.3 % The outcome of the conference was a longer text than that of the Lausanne Covenant and has been given the name The Manila Manifesto. [406] David J. Hesselgrave, Redefinng Holism in Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Vol. the same God introduced with the first six sentences of the Bible. A missions-inspired statement from 1974 should be viewed in that context, not as a commentary on American politics fifty years later. Cherian agreed, adding, Just a few disjointed verses are not going to help you understand the genuine gospel, the culmination of a wonderful long story, of Gods plan to bring Gods redemption to the world. For evangelicals in the United States, the 1979 publication of Charles H. Krafts Christianity in Culture: A Study in Dynamic Biblical Theologizing in Cross-Cultural Perspective brought to light significant differences among evangelicals. Thirdly, Paragraph 10 is clear that culture must always be tested and judged by Scripture. Heres what happened. [1] One of the most influential documents in modern evangelicalism,[2] it was written at the First International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, where it was adopted by 2,300 evangelicals in attendance. What Is a Man? The work of the consultation resulted in the publication of the book containing the papers presented at the event, Gospel and Culture, edited by John Stott and Robert Coote (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1979) as well as the Willowbank Report Consultation on Gospel and Culture (Lausanne Occasional Paper 2). But losing Stott would have been a big blow. (Gen 3:20) Evening and eve are the same word in Hebrew.
