Conclusion | Audio Reading of The Seoul Statement

Conclusion: This is an audio reading of the Conclusion of the Seoul Statement, renewing the Lausanne Movement's commitment to declare and display Christ together globally. To read the full text, visit lausanne.org/statement/the-seoul-statement.

Episode Transcript

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Conclusion of the soul Statement, we gather an inch on South Korea for the fourth Lausanne Congress with a high and holy purpose.

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The mission entrusted to us by Jesus, the crucified and risen Lord of all in the gospel.
God is calling all people everywhere to turn from their sins and receive his gift of new life through the forgiveness of sins, through the gospel, God is building his church, accomplishing his purpose to form one holy people.
Made up of all peoples reconcile to himself and to one another.

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In Christ by the gospel, we become disciples of the Lord Jesus and delight in the freedom of living under his saving rule by the gospel.
We make disciples and teach them to obey Christ Commandments.
This is our calling and cause in our pursuit of it, we gladly return to God what he has entrusted to us, our gifts, our resources, our energy, our lives.

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We humbly profess that any fruit from our labor will be an achievement of his grace.
We listen to our Lord speaking to us through the scriptures and calling us to follow him in the way of the cross by the power of the Spirit.
We hear him call us to live our lives within the story that culminates in the good news of Christ's death and resurrection and to give our lives so that all may know he is Lord of all.

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To that end, we hear him call us to be faithful interpreters of his authoritative word.
We hear him call us to a renewed commitment to the local church as the only visible manifestation of the Church of Christ, the people of peoples formed through faith in Christ.
From every place and time we hear him call us to faithfulness in the face of challenges new and old, to the faith of the apostles passed down to us from one generation to the next by men and women whose lives bore witness to its truth to follow Christ, we follow them.

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We return to our places of service in every corner of the world with a renewed commitment to love as he has loved us to lay aside selfish ambition, to work in gospel partnership and to grow daily in prayerful dependence on his spirit and the knowledge of his will, his ways and his word, so that we may declare with one voice, the excellencies of the one who alone is the hope and light of the world, so that we may display with one heart the holiness and love of the one who gave himself the sinners.

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So that we, the church may declare and display Christ together help us.
So God, we pray in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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