Lausanne Occasional Papers

Lausanne Occasional Papers serve as a repository of scholarly analysis, theological reflection, and practical insight shaped through global consultations, issue networks, and collaborative dialogue within the Lausanne Movement. They gather collective wisdom from across the global church to address significant theological, missiological, and practical questions related to world evangelization.

  • Diasporas and MigrationFreedom and JusticeIntegral Mission

    Christian Witness to Refugees

    1. Introduction The plight of the refugees around the world has provoked our Consultation to reflect upon our responsibility, as Christians, to them. The following paper represents the fruit of that study and is intended to serve the church of Jesus Christ in the following ways: to inform the…
  • Islam

    The Glen Eyrie Report: Muslim Evangelization

    Introduction: The Background During mid-October 1978, a week-long consultation was convened at Glen Eyrie, Colorado, to explore the responsibilities of North American Christians toward the Muslim World. This was part of a continuum that began with the International Congress on World Evangelization at Lausanne 1974. At that time many…

  • An Exposition and Commentary by John Stott

    Preface A theologian who teaches in Asia has written about the Lausanne Covenant, "History may show this Covenant to be the most significant ecumenical confession on evangelism that the church has ever produced." It is a bold statement. As he says, only history will tell. In the meantime, while…
  • ContextualizationCulture and Society

    The Willowbank Report: Consultation on Gospel and Culture

    Introduction The process of communicating the gospel cannot be isolated from the human culture from which it comes, or from that in which it is to be proclaimed. This fact constituted one of the preoccupations of the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in July 1974. So the Lausanne Committee's…
  • Culture and Society

    The Pasadena Consultation: Homogeneous Unit Principle

    1. Introduction: The Setting A discussion of the "homogeneous unit principle" of Church Growth theory was held under the auspices of the Lausanne Theology and Education Group from May 31 to June 2, 1977, in Pasadena, California. Five faculty members of the Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission…
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