L4 deepened my understanding of global perspectives and the greatest priorities for advancing global mission: intergenerational leadership, discipleship, and justice.

Today, we live in a world of indolence that strengthens people with sinister agendas, whatever their ideology or religion may be. 

Keir Starmer’s parents reportedly named him after Keir Hardie, the radical Christian co-founder of the Labour Party. Unlike Hardie, the new UK prime minister belongs to the 37% of Brits who tick the ‘no religion’ box.

It is relatively easy to achieve one of the three, but a response that speaks to the true influence of lives transformed by Jesus should touch all three.

Let us not forget that the Human Rights that are at stake were born in the fertile soil of Christianity.

“We thought Covid-19 was going to minimize the effect of persecution, but it has been the opposite. Persecution has increased”, says the director of Open Doors Spain. The organisation releases its annual World Watch List.

We have to hold out until the end, when God will publicly reveal the truth.

A respected member of the Christian community was arrested without a reason. “Many people are outraged by this and we are going to support him”, his pastor says.

“Europe is the world’s most peaceful region”, Global Peace Index says. “As Christians, our contribution to peace is to be a reflection of Jesus”, the leader of Anabaptists and Mennonites in Spain, says.

It’s one thing to know what to protest against. It’s another to know what vision for society, for our nation, for the world, to champion.

A dynamic life of faith is neither limited to the affairs of earth nor ignorant of them. It lives in the tension between heaven and earth.

The Bible warns against using dishonest weights, but we have raised that to an art form.

The biblical work ethics clashes with a system that, according to the International Labour Organization, “experiences a lack of material well-being, economic security, equal opportunities or scope for human development”.

There is one who never makes an error; a supreme referee, a judge who is above all things, and to whom we will all one day be accountable: God himself.

What should fill us with hope is that the present order of things won’t always remain the same: everything will be turned upside down and in the end it is not the powerful that will triumph.