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Article 5 in a series of articles based upon the Lausanne North America Listening Call
Question 4: Where is further research needed to accelerate the Great Commission?
We live in a world that’s always conducting research. Because we are bombarded by various kinds of research every day, we tend to forget the purpose of research. The purpose of research can range from information gathering to problem-solving or to increase our understanding in an area, field of study, or discipline.
For the church, the question of “where further research is needed?” can be met with a warm reception or a cold rejection. There may be some who believe the church doesn’t need to do any further research and all churches need to do is to be faithful to the Bible and let God worry about the results—especially when it comes to the Great Commission. On the other hand, there may be those hungry to receive the latest research so they can pivot their strategy with the hope of being more effective missionally.
We at the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center and Lausanne North America believe in research. Therefore, we welcome more information, data, and research in areas with the hope of becoming more effective at the mission.
On our Lausanne Listening Call last March, over two hundred Christian leaders shared what areas they believed more research was needed in to accelerate the Great Commission today. After spending some time with the data, we broke down the majority of what was shared into the following three topics/areas where more research is needed in order for the church in North America to become more effective at participating in the Great Commission.
1.) Learning how to be human in a technopoly.
Neil Postman in his book, Technopoly, notes three classifications of culture: tool-using cultures, technocracies, ...
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