{"product_id":"9781619701229","title":"The Cape Town Commitment: Study Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn October of 2010, over 4,000 Christian leaders from 198 countries met in Cape \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTown, South Africa, to discuss critical issues of our time as they relate to the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChurch and evangelization. This was the Third Lausanne Congress, convening nearly \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e36 years after the original Lausanne Congress in 1974, called by Billy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGraham.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten as a roadmap for the Lausanne Movement going forward, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCape Town Commitment\u003c\/i\u003e presents a statement of shared Biblical convictions, and \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecalls churches, mission agencies, seminaries and Christians all over the World to \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Cape Town Commitment\u003c\/i\u003e includes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eadditional commentary by the drafting committee and carefully composed questions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efor further reflection. Groups or individuals will be prompted to interact on a \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003edeeper level with the text and will have the opportunity to engage in the same \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ediscussion questions that engaged those at the Third Lausanne Congress, for which \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cape Town Commitment was first created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProminent authors involved in The \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLausanne Movement include John Stott, John Piper, Ajith Fernando, Vaughan Roberts, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoni Eareckson Tada, Christopher J. H. Wright, and Rebecca Manley \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePippert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“It is hard to believe that so many years have gone by since \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLausanne ‘74. How many changes we have seen since then! The world has changed, the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003echurch has changed, younger leaders have been raised up, but the Gospel has not \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003echanged, and the need for evangelism is more urgent than ever before.”\u003c\/i\u003e—Billy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGraham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eThe Cape Town Commitment \u003ci\u003eis not the memorial of a moment. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the conviction of a Movement and the voice of a multitude. It distils a vast \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003equantity of input from the global Church. We profoundly hope and pray that we are \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehearing not just the voice of Cape Town 2010, but the voice of our Lord Jesus \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChrist who walked among us there.”\u003c\/i\u003e—From the Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hendrickson Publishers, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183781822704,"sku":"9781619701229","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619701229_p0.jpg?v=1763854986","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619701229","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}