What Can Western Christians Learn from Churches in the Rest of the World? - Hwa Yung

Churches in the Majority World will forever owe an immense debt of love to Christians in the West, many of whom brought the gospel to them often at great cost. The relationship between Christianity in the West and that in the Majority World was largely one of teacher-and-pupil for a long time. But with the number of Christians in the Majority World now vastly outnumbering those in the West, mission, which used to be “from the West to the rest,” is now being reconfigured as “from everywhere to everywhere.” Thus the questions that must be asked include: Why is the church growing so rapidly in the Majority World? What is God doing over there, and what can Western Christians learn from churches in the rest of the world?

ELF Director Greg Pritchard writes about Hwa Yung's Workshop "What Can Western Christians Learn from Churches in the Rest of the World?: "If the European, indeed Western, Church is to understand itself, it needs to look in the mirror of the majority church's perspective. This talk is a rare opportunity to learn lessons from a senior global Gospel leader that we need to learn.""

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Hwa Yung is a Bishop Emeritus of the Methodist Church in Malaysia. He studied science in Tasmania (Australia), theology at London University, and missiology at Asbury Theological Seminary (USA). He has worked as a pastor, served as the Principal of the Malaysia Theological Seminary (1986-2001), and was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College, Singapore (2001-2004). He was the Bishop of the Methodist Church in Malaysia from 2004-2012. For many years he was the Chairman for the Council of Trustees of the Oxford Centre for the Mission Studies. He has long been associated with the Lausanne movement, including being part of the Executive Leadership Team for Cape Town 2010. He was the Honorary President of IFES from 2011 to 2019.

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