As you know, representatives from practically every country in the world will soon gather in Cape Town to study some of the most penetrating mission themes for missions in the 21st Century. But what are *you* wishing they’d talk about? We’ll be reporting ‘live’ from Cape Town on a regular basis, Lord willing. What do you hope we’ll capture. Here’s your chance. Just click “Comment” below this item on the web and have at it. Tell what *you* want to see come out of South Africa.
I want to see the 2/3 world represented. White men are no longer the majority of Evangelicals, so I really hope the voice of the rest of the world will be heard loud and clear.
I have heard that many believers around the world especially in the West are concluding that the day of Western missions, so you leaving here to go there, is over and it not only IS over, it SHOULD be over. That we don’t need America, we don’t need Canada, we don’t need Europe because every group is touched and it is better for the locals to do the evangelizing anyway because it’s cheaper and culturally more effective. And besides the West is fading. While at Lausanne, please listen for this and report back what you may have found to refute this, since the Bible always includes all of us in all of His mission. Thank you. I understand that a new book, which I haven’t read yet, by Robert Wethknow of Princeton called Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches, was written to correct this and other mistakes.
Carl and Dianne, we’ll certainly listen for these themes. Thanks for taking time to contribute.