Wow, I feel like the hosts of heaven are all on stand-by to back us up with strength, as we march forward in faith. Amen to all that the Lord will do in and through His Church in 2010 and beyond!!!

How do you sellect each participants for the Cape town events?

How could we participant and seen the really things happened?

What would be the benifit of being a participant in the Cape Town event?

I really interested in Hosting the Globalink site in my place and ministry too.

Wow, it is a little scary to read the term "final stretch" with regards to the congress. Yikes, time is flying!

I hear and receive your challenges to increased prayer and Bible study, especially focused on Ephesians. I've been striving to be engaged in the "work of Lausanne", which is sometimes an elusive idea. But it occurred to me today that prayer is absolutely the "work of Lausanne." Also, I commit to prayerfully leading my mission team through the book of Ephesians in 2010. They may groan a bit, because we just finished a 2-year study on the full armor of God. I also love the specific challenge to memorize the text of Ephesians. Okay, I'll take the challenge!

Blessings.

Hi Doug:
There are many crucial, structural, doctrinal and relational issues in the book of Ephesians, none of which will come to fruition until the church returns to God and His eternal ways, so as to separate the holy from the profane. Before everything else about Him (if that could be said), we serve a loving God but also a God who is holy. Yes there will be unity in the body of Christ based on love, but not at the expense of truth or holiness.

When we gentiles were incorporated into the covenant, back in the days of the first century church, we were accepted into the faith that was once given to the saints - and designed without any contribution on our part. We were stepping onto the existing foundation of the Apostles (God is love) and of the Prophets (God is holy) upon which we were to be built, along with the born again descendants of Abraham. We had nothing to add to that foundation. The church was powerful because it was holy and filled with His love - with all that this means in application according to His Word alone. From the foundation to the chief corner stone, it is all about the Messiah, by Him, through Him and for Him.

Through the centuries, we gentiles have added plenty to the foundation structurally, doctrinally, and relationally, that 2000 years later, the church is a distorted image of what God originally envisioned it to be and birthed. The marred condition of the Church today, while it is accomplishing some works of course, is absolutely its very own hindrance to the fulness of the power of God; nothing else is. The work ahead of us requires His fulness.

But as the Church began in its life, in its expression, in its witness to the God of Israel and to the Jew first, so it will end. God is seeing to it even now.

The body of Christ needs a complete restoration to all of God's revealed ways; a new Reformation will not do. Only in contemplating what restoration would mean to the Church strategically, can the declared issues that Lausanne will seek to address find their most appropriate answers.

Much grace and peace to you.
May the wisdom and spiritual understanding of God rest upon all participants at the conference.
Jean-Claude

Praise the LORD for yet another springboard "to serve the present age, my calling to fulfill; oh may it all my powers engage to do my master's will." (Charles Wesley)

To Cody C. Lorance:
As I wrote in my previous text dear brother, may I remind you that I said there is only one foundation (Isa 28: 16; 1 Cor 3:11) - not two as you think I insinuated - and one cornerstone (Isa 28:16 Eph 2:20), and that is Jesus Christ. It is all about Him, by Him, through Him and for Him (Col 1:16), and in us, by grace through faith (Eph 2:8-9; 1 Cor 15:10; 1 Cor 3:7).

Marcion was a heretic; there is only one God with one nature. And so, holiness with its judgments, and love with its mercy, are just as inseparable as music and its notes. God is one (Deut 6:4; Mat 12:29; Jas 2:19)
“Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Thy throne, mercy and truth go before Thee” Ps 89:14 - JPS. God manifest in the flesh is all of that (Col 2:9 Heb 1:3).

The law came by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (John 1:17). My understanding of that is this: what righteousness and justice are to holiness, grace and truth are to love.

There is much more about this but...
- Christ - as the foundation - demonstrated by His life, the requirement both of the holiness and of the love of God, and established this as the foundation for the life of the church. "You shall be holy for I am holy" (Lev 11:44, 19:2, 1 Pet 1:16.) ""whoever keeps His Word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected (1 John 2:2-6; Eph 3:17-19).
- Christ - as the cornerstone - is the point of reference for everything about how we, as living stones (1 Pet 2:5), are to be built in the body of Christ and how our lives are to be lined-up individually and collectively, with Who He is and the way He lived. (Eph 2: 21-22; Eph 4: 15-16; Col 2:6-7)

"Which one of you accuses Me of sin?" (John 8:46). No one could point to one single violation of the written law in Jesus' life.
Jesus - God become flesh - demonstrated His perfect holiness by His life perfectly living out the righteousness and justice of God as written in the ”holy, just, and good” law (Rom 7:12); in doing so, He became the perfect sacrifice (1 Pet 1:19 and Exo 12:5-6 as type on Passover day.)
Jesus also demonstrated His perfect love (Rom 5:8; 1Cor 5:8) The apostles knew God mainly by His holiness and His judgements; and it is only after the resurrection that the apostles discovered the depth of God's love for them. I contend that it was unknown to them up to that point. When they realized that Jesus knew all along that He was the true Passover lamb, and that since Sinai, God had commanded them to go to Jerusalem every year (Deut 16:16) because He knew that one day His people would look at Him there, flogged, with His flesh torn, a crown of thorns on His bleeding head, spitted upon, nailed to a cross as a common criminal to pay the price of their own sins and be their Savior, words fail me to describe what they must have felt. Truly the love of Christ "surpasses knowledge" (Eph 3:19).
God's revelation to His people about Himself was finally complete.

I cannot conceive of the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, which is Christ Himself, being anything greater or lesser than the love of God and the holiness of God as revealed by Him to the apostles and the prophets.
Everything in our life is to be built on that (1 Pet 2:5) including the many issues that this foundation and its cornerstone have as a strategic meaning in the life, the expression, the identity and the function of the church, and this, only as it could have been understood by the first century church (2 Pet 3:1-2; Jude 3) and the declarations of the prophets.
Since you do not think that it is so; please tell me; I would like to know exactly what you think what that foundation is all about?

And if walking as He walked (1 John 2:6) does not mean for us to live out the righteousness and justice, the grace and truth, that made up His own life which is also forever ours by the gift of His grace - eternal salvation (Heb 5:9) apart from the works of the law (Gal 2:16) - and which is growing in us more and more as we abide in Him (John 15: 4) by faith, then I would like to know what you think it means to walk as He walked? The natural fruit of that kind of life will be doing the deeds that He did - or rather His doing them in us (the... yet not I... of Paul 1 Cor 15:10 and that of Jesus John 14:10)).
As hell intensifies its fury before the return of Christ, it will take that kind of a church to continue triumphing over the gates of hell; and of course, it will triumph just as it does today. But in light of the coming deep darkness (Isa 60:2), not with those who are lukewarm...(Rev 3:16) God forbid that we be counted among them. My people perish for lack of knowledge (Hos 4:6) and judgement begins at the house of God (Eze 9:6; 1 Pet 4:17).

Finally, the so-called “restoration” initiated by false prophets (that you refer to) is eons behind what I am talking about, and was based on their disregard to the final authority of Scriptures and on their own added satanically inspired writings to further confuse man.
The prophesied restoration of Acts 3:21 is based solely on the holy unchangeable and eternal Word of God and calls us to separate the holy from the profane that has accumulated in the church traditions over the centuries - with only His whole Word as a guide. He returns for a pure and spotless bride.

Looking at the church today, and compared to what we see in the whole Word of God including of course the book of Acts, I cannot understand why the word "restoration" would not be the most accurate word to use. The word describes the work needed better than the word "reform" does. The reformation was truly that; a reform; it only restored the teaching that salvation is obtained by grace through faith alone but left plenty to be addressed. It is God who has final authority on what He allows the enemy of our soul to do, Who is at work to will and to do of His good pleasure.
He has begun that restoration already; and guess what? Nobody can be pinpointed as the Man who started it.

When all has been said, it is all for the glory of God.

There are other issues that I would like to address from your post, but this is not the place. I don't want to write a book; this is already too much.

"There is no God but Yahweh and Jesus is His Son"
Let's declare this boldly when the knife is on your/my throat to counteract their declaration.
Much grace and peace to you Cody.
Jean-Claude

I am an American missionary living in Spain with my family via the US Navy. I would like to know if I am allowed to attend the 2010 Lausanne conference in Cape Town?

Somente agora soube deste evento tão especial, sobre o qual ouço falar desde criança. Há mais de 20 anos atuo no ministério evangelístico, especialmente com estudantes. Atualmente também coordeno a Campanha Nacional contra a Pornografia no Brasil.
Portanto, rogo a Deus que abençoe a todos os participantes do CAPE TOWN 2010.
Se for possível já gostaria de me instrever para o próximo, se até lá a igreja ainda não tiver sido arrebatada. Caso ampliem a lista de participantes esterei disposto para participar ainda este ano.