Coaching for On-field Development
It is time mission leaders rethink how they help missionaries develop. Coaching is one answer to effectively developing missionaries on the field.
Category: Volume 44 – Issue 3
Reconstructing Christianity in China: K. H. Ting and the Chinese Church
Wickeri’s biography of Bishop K.H. Ting combines research in Chinese and English, close reading of Ting’s extensive writing, and several personal …
The Need for Field-based Counselor Training in Evangelical Missions
While Christian counseling has grown in North America, this is not the case in other parts of the world. Bowen discusses field-based training for nati…
Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective
In this book, Carter advances the thesis that we must move from a Christendom to a post-Christendom way of thinking about the Christ and culture probl…
Missionary Burnout: Who is Adequate for These Things?
Speaking from experience, the author shares how missionaries and leaders can identify burnout—and offers five steps to recovery.
The Bible and Mission in Faith Perspective: J. Hudson Taylor and the Early China Inland Mission
Christopher E. M. Wigram's book expands our knowledge of Taylor by analyzing the way he used the Bible for doing missions.
Discerning When We Have Completed What God Has Assigned to Us
Five ways to discern when a missionary assignment is coming to an end.
The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind
This book explores for contemporary academics the challenge posed a quarter of a century earlier by Charles Malik: recapturing the great universities …
A Lesson from Jose: Understanding the Patron/Client Relationship
Aside from the discipling/mentoring aspect, there are at least four arenas in which a proper understanding of patronage will have an impact on the eff…
Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church is Influencing the Way We Think
Tim Tennent’s book asks, “What can the worldwide Church learn from the theological reflection going on in the Majority World Church, reflection wh…