General issues Global Call to Action
- simoneworthing
- 7 days ago
- 2 min read
General Lyndon Buckingham, international leader of The Salvation Army, has called the global church and charity to deep spiritual renewal and reinvigorated passion for its mission of transformation in the world.
Addressing Salvationists, employees and supporters worldwide, the General begins: “I appeal to you, in this universal call upon The Salvation Army, that we pray for the Holy Spirit to inject us with a divine sense of urgency about our missional and spiritual life.”
The General’s Global Call to Action is a powerful declaration spoken into the heart of The Salvation Army. He acknowledges challenges but sees “the greatest challenge being the level of our own enthusiasm for the mission that God has given us” and “how much we are shaped by the prevailing cultures and ideologies of the world instead of being shaped by Jesus and the values of the Kingdom of God.”
“I believe our faith in Jesus, and the power of the Holy Spirit in us, can eclipse culture and ideology,” he highlights. “ ... Bronwyn and I know and sense with every fibre of our beings that we need spiritual breakthrough which will see our faith communities in every place leaving behind the experience and language of declining numbers and living into health and growth and a flourishing that will continue long into the future.”
The Global Call to Action also acknowledges the need to let go of the desire to control our movement and to make room for allowing our young people to lead us into a new day for The Salvation Army, commencing immediately.
The General’s Global Call to Action is available on this page in all of the official languages of The Salvation Army. We encourage you to be blessed and challenged as you read and deeply inspired to act upon its words.
