After Lausanne

Amid many bleak and discouraging items in the news of late, the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation can bring us both some joy and hope.

Apart from its more major achievements, the Congress produced a staggering number of photographs chronicling the event, and browsing through them it is hard not to be encouraged by the sheer breadth of those attending and the evident joy. It is worth taking a moment to flick through some of those pictures online.

There was some controversy, as our news report makes clear. This should not surprise us unduly, given the picture the New Testament paints of the early churches and the propensity of any group of Christians to disagree on some matters.