How Global Is Your Faith? | Becoming a Global Disciple Ep. 1
Is your faith deep, but not wide? Michael Oh opens Becoming a Global Disciple with a simple but challenging question: How global is your faith?
This episode explores why global discipleship is not a missions specialty, but a normal part of following Jesus. Discover how God’s heart for every nation, tribe, people, and language should shape our discipleship, our humility, and our love for the global body of Christ.
Episode 1 of Becoming a Global Disciple
A Lausanne Movement series on global faith, global mission, and following Jesus with the worldwide church.
Episode Outline
00:00 Opening
01:07 How global is your faith?
01:34 Globally connected, spiritually confined
02:16 Our God is a global God
02:48 Ubuntu and the body of Christ
03:10 A faith that is deep and wide
03:40 God’s vision from Genesis to Revelation
04:51 Global discipleship is simply Christianity
05:52 Why we need the global church
06:47 Practices for growing global discipleship
07:18 Know your global family
07:43 Practice global prayer and learning
08:01 Build global friendship and collaboration
08:17 Be rooted in your local church
08:50 Closing prayer
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Speaker's Bio
Michael Oh
Global Executive Director/CEO
Dr Michael Young-Suk Oh is Global Executive Director / CEO of the Lausanne Movement.
Michael is of Korean descent, born in America. Michael received his BA, MS, and PhD degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed an MDiv at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School as well as an MA in regional studies, East Asia, at Harvard University.
Michael, his wife Pearl, and their five children served as missionaries in Nagoya, Japan from 2004 to 2016. In January 2004, he founded a ministry called Christ Bible Institute (CBI), which includes Christ Bible Seminary, the Heart & Soul Cafe, and a church-planting ministry. He currently serves as chairman of the board of directors for CBI and chancellor of Christ Bible Seminary.
Michael’s first involvement with the Lausanne Movement was at the 2004 Forum for World Evangelization. Then in 2006 Michael served on the younger leaders planning team for the 2006 Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering, where he also gave the keynote address. In 2007 he joined the Lausanne Board of Directors as its youngest member. He has served as global executive director / CEO since March 2013.