Five years after Cape Town

Julia Cameron  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Feb 2016
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Five years after Cape Town

Bishop Jack Dain (L) and Billy Graham signing the Lausanne Covenant in 1974

Julia Cameron brings us up-to-date with the Lausanne Movement

It is five years this month since the Cape Town Commitment was published. In that time it has spread out widely, and down deeply, across the continents, in major and ‘minor’ languages.

The Congress itself reflected the global church, with invitations allocated in relation to the number of evangelicals in each nation. There was, however, one conspicuous exception.

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