This Lausanne Occasional Paper deals section by section with the statement, "An Evangelical Commitment to Simple Life-style." The purpose was to study simple living in relation to evangelism, relief and justice, since all three are mentioned in the Lausanne Covenant's sentences on simple life-style. The perspective was, on the one hand, the teaching of the Bible; and, on the other, the suffering world-that is, the billions of men, women and children who, though made in His image and the objects of His love, an either unevangelized or oppressed or both, being destitute of the gospel of salvation and of the basic necessities of human life.
--John Stott and Ronald J. Sider