{"id":97,"date":"2009-10-15T16:27:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/worldmission\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-10-15T16:27:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T21:27:58","slug":"whole-gospel-whole-church-whole-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/serveglobally\/2009\/10\/15\/whole-gospel-whole-church-whole-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Gospel, Whole Church, Whole World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"text\" style=\"z-index: 0; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; line-height: 13pt; color: #000000;\">Taking the gospel to the ends of the earth, in obedience to the Great Commission, is an inescapable imperative. A definition of world evangelization that has won assent from Christians of all stripes was memorably summarized in the Lausanne Covenant\u2014the document substantially crafted by John R. W. Stott and affirmed by the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in 1974: &#8220;Evangelization requires the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\" style=\"z-index: 0; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; line-height: 13pt; color: #000000;\">The &#8220;three wholes&#8221; in this ringing phrase had been part of Christian discourse for some years before Stott drafted the covenant. Indeed, they go back to the apostle Paul, if not to the patriarch Abraham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\" style=\"z-index: 0; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; line-height: 13pt; color: #000000;\">Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/globalconversation\/october2009\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">rest of the story<\/a> by Christopher J. H. Wright on ChristianityToday.com.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/serveglobally?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=97&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the gospel to the ends of the earth, in obedience to the Great Commission, is an inescapable imperative. A definition of world evangelization that has won assent from Christians of all stripes was memorably summarized in the Lausanne Covenant\u2014the document substantially crafted by John R. W. Stott and affirmed by the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in 1974: &#8220;Evangelization requires the whole church to take the whole gospel to the whole world.&#8221; The &#8220;three wholes&#8221; in this ringing phrase had been part of Christian discourse for some years before Stott drafted the covenant. Indeed, they go back to the apostle Paul, if not to the patriarch Abraham. Read the rest of the story by Christopher J. H. Wright on ChristianityToday.com. 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