Inspiration and Challenges from Cape Town and Edinburgh to Church and Mission

Based on inspirations and challenges from 2010's Lausanne Cape Town Congress and the Edinburgh 2010 celebration, the article highlights 'discipleship' and 'powerlessness' as emerging key terms in mission. He finds increasing convergence between ecumenicals and evangelicals, also in such areas as missio Dei, critique of the prosperity gospel and the search for new models of mission in the 21st century. Diaspora and migration are regarded as primary pathways of mission today and tomorrow.