[Lausanne Global Analysis, vol. 6, issue 6] Connecting Across Generations for Global Mission: Five lessons from Lausanne's engagement with younger leaders
‘Connecting missional leaders across generations is both historically and strategically at the heart of the Lausanne Movement’, write Lars Dahle and Rudolf Kabutz (Lausanne Catalysts for Media Engagement) along with Nana Yaw Offei Awuku (Lausanne Global Associate Director for Generations). The Younger Leaders (YL) initiatives within the movement provide key lessons for the global church. ‘Passing the torch’ of leadership to the next generation was a key concern at the first Younger Leaders’ Gathering (YLG) in Singapore in 1987, thus modelling the missional significance of intergenerational partnerships and friendships for the global church. Christ-like servant leadership across generations was a central theme at Malaysia 2006, thus demonstrating the missional significance of character and partnership to the global church. Learning from the biblical story and from one another’s stories were key themes at Jakarta 2016, thus exhibiting a forward-looking intergenerational missional learning community to the global church. YLGen, launched in 2016, models intergenerational missional discipleship and partnership to the global church. The article concludes with five key lessons for the global church from these initiatives. ‘A deep and prayerful implementation of these five lessons will equip the global body of Christ across generations of younger and experienced leaders to bear witness to Jesus Christ and all his teaching—in every nation, in every sphere of society, and in the realm of ideas’, they conclude.
[https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2017-11/november-2017-issue-overview]
[https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2017-11/november-2017-issue-overview]
Publisert i 2017
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