If the twentieth century was the ecumenical century, the twenty-first can should perhaps be considered the century of world Christianity. This session explores the potential of Global Evangelicalism as an answer to the inherent tensions and challenges posed by the phenomenological and theological impulses of the world Christianity ideational construct, ultimately arguing that Global Evangelicalism offers us the open-ended diversity of contextual and inculturated expression offered by the world Christian movement while also providing Gospel norms and boundaries that, unlike world Christianity, allow for Christianity’s unique identity and distinctiveness to be maintained. It is Global Evangelicalism, then, that fosters true Christian mission and ministry in a world in need of Christ and the promise of Christ’s Kingdom, both here in the present and as it is to come.

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