The latest edition of the Lausanne World Pulse magazine is online, and this issue focuses on a major challenge facing the church today: how can we be an effective global church given the many different cultures (each with its own history and values) in which the church exists? How do we relate to believers who live in radically different cultures than our own?

The magazine breaks this broad question down into a number of more specific essays, including:

• What does it mean to be the church in different cultures? Is it possible to present the Gospel in a contextually-relevant, culturally-comprehensible way without watering it down?
• The dilemma of state church structures in Europe. With the much-discussed decline of the institutional church in Europe, what can the church to rebuild itself throughout the continent?
• Churches in homes and House church in England, about a new, simpler style of church-building.
• Two essays about ministry to the desperately poor “garbage villages” of Cairo.

There’s much more, so be sure to stop by and read through all the new articles in this issue.

(Image: Cairo, Egypt, where missionaries and church workers are ministering to the people of the city’s “garbage villages.” Photo by Asandei Radu.)

By: Andy. This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 4:31 pm and is filed under World. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.