I saw this list on Brigada the other day and thought it would be great to include for those who want to experience more of the Lausanne conference on World Evangelization that just ended in Capetown.

It’s one thing to read an article about it; it’s quite another thing to *experience* it. Now you can! Maybe you can’t literally sit at a Lausanne discussion table, as all 4000 delegates did but you can certainly soak up the content in other ways. Check out the schedule, complete with links for the events that are already documented online with audio or video recordings:

http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/schedule.html

Look at the virtual congress online…

http://virtualcongress.lausanne.org/

… and the picture galleries…

http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/photos.html

Watch the videos…

http://conversation.lausanne.org/en

Read the media…

http://www.lausanne.org/news-releases/

… or the blogs…

http://www.lausanne.org/lausanne-blog/

for the “official” blog and …

http://conversation.lausanne.org/en/conversations

for tons of unofficial opinions.

And perhaps most importantly of all, *pray* along with delegates at…

http://www.lausanne.org/cape-town-2010/pray.html

Today was a little more intense than the first day here at CIU, where I am taking a course based on the Lausanne conference on World Evangelization going on in Capetown, South Africa right now.

The day was intense mostly because of a few of the issues that we were talking about and the videos we watched.

We started the day listening to Vaughan Roberts (View part 1 and part 2) do an exposition of Ephesians 4. Some of the important things I remember him saying were:

• With all of the things that are supposed to bring us together, we are as divided as ever (in the world).
• In a world of division, our world should look to the diverse group represented in church and say, “Wow, how those Christians love each other.”
• Christian unity requires a proclamation of the gospel.
• Unity doesn’t mean uniformity.
• The truth is not a weapon to be used on those who disagree with me.
• Love demands truth telling/

We then watched Dr. Paul Eshlemen speak on Unreached and Unengaged People Groups (see video).

We then celebrated the life of Billy Graham and the legacy he has left for world evangelization by watching this incredible video with highlights of his life.

John Piper did the exposition on Ephesians 3 (watch part 1 and part 2), which was enough to make my head spin. It was pretty heavy stuff. I’ll have to watch the video again to try to see if I can understand all that he said. He certainly challenged us on a number of points.

We finished the day talking about globalization and how that is a challenge to world evangelization. One of the phrases that the Dr. King said, “The flip side of love is suffering.” It really made me think. I’m sure I’ll write something on that soon, but I’m chewing on the concept and asking God to help me love more.

I’m at CIU in South Carolina again. This time I’m taking a class called “Major Issues in 21st Century Missions.” It is a class that revolves around the Lausanne conference in Capetown, South Africa.

The pre-course reading for this class was the best I have ever had to do. It was tough (900 pages), but the issues and conversations that result from reading the various papers that speak to different issues have helped me think through some things in missiology.

We have been watching videos of the conference in South Africa and have had the chance to speak with some of the representatives from CIU who are attending the conference.

Here are the links to some of the videos we watched today:

• Turning Points – Part 1 (An incredible overview of church history)
• Turning Points – Part 2

• Ajith Fernando – Bible Exposition: Ephesians 1
• Dr. Michael Herbst – Presenting Truth in Europe
• Why Truth Matters – Os Guinness

Lausanne is probably the largest gathering of Christian evangelical leaders in the history of the world, bringing together 4,000 leaders from more than 200 countries to confront the critical issues of our time as they relate to the future of the Church and world evangelization. It’s fun to be a part of it.

The theme of Urbana ’09 is that God Dwelled Among Us. It’s all about how God “moved into our neighborhood” with the incarnation.

In tonight’s general session, we explored this concept a little.

Here are my notes from General Session #1 at Urbana:

When God wanted to show us His love, He chose to have His Son here with us. The incarntation is:

The MEANS by which God reaches out to us.

• To honor someone in the middle east, you go to them where they are comfortable just like Jesus did with us.
• When God showed us His love, He came to us.

It is the MESSAGE that God has for us.

• We have seen His glory.
• We can experience His grace.
• We are challenged by His truth.

We should not be surprised if people reject the truth today…they rejected Jesus.

It is the MODEL for how we minister.
As the Father sent me, I am sending you.

Another thing that struck me hard was this phrase: Even the darkness was not dark to you.