Berge Traboulsi, Lebanon:

First of all, I would like to congratulate Professor Viggo Mortensen and his team for their good job and for the well organized and enriching conference.

Allow me to share with you a few thoughts and concerns:

1. It is important to do self-criticism in order to evaluate and assess our work. What I have really missed is a clear new definition, or even, a redefinition, of the term ‘mission’ in the third millennium.

2. I was eager to learn some new practical methods and techniques besides the Internet to conduct missionary work, in order to carry the ‘Good News’ of and about Jesus to all people.

3. I wonder why many churches, in the East as well as in the West, are facing attendance problems. If Churches are aging and not maturing, I think that sooner or later, they will become like museums with little visitors. Even, ‘Virtual Churches’ (in the Cyber Space) will not be ‘cool’ for the new generations.

4. Do really our churches have missions? Do really our churches have visions? In the conclusion of my paper, I wrote “A church without mission is a lost cause and a church without vision is a dangerous cause.”

5. I came to Denmark with the belief that Christianity is declining in the Middle East. It seems that it is also declining in Europe.

6. Finally, this time maybe God will not be willing to raise up Children for Abraham from any stone, or maybe rulers will not be interested in using Christianity to maintain stability in their realms.

So, have we ever thought of ‘what’s next’?