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The Great Commission: Evangelicals and the History of World Missions
Historians have long discussed the theological and cultural influence of the eighteenth-century evangelical awakenings on Great Britain and her North American colonies.
Good and Faithful—New Zealand Missionaries and Their Experience of Attrition
Why do missionaries come home prematurely and what can be done about it? Hudson Deane has asked these questions to ninety-two evangelical missionaries from nineteen agencies who were returning to New Zealand.
Faith Comes By Hearing: A Response to Inclusivism
Faith Comes by Hearing is a contribution to an evangelical theology of the unevangelized.
Encountering Missionary Life and Work: Preparing for Intercultural Ministry
A much-needed textbook to prepare missionaries.
Antioch Revisited: Reuniting the Church with Her Mission
Author Tom Julien weaves a compelling story of a missionary who rediscovered that blueprint in Acts 13 and purposed to coax his home church back to Antioch’s example.
Mapping Resources for Missions
Finding map resources on the web.
Training Leaders by Planting Seed Truths
The process of sowing and the harvest teaches us four basic principles or “laws.”
Pitfalls Missions Committees Must Avoid
Missions committees must constantly update their mission vision and strategy. Hedberg outlines nine pitfalls committees must avoid.
Five Rules for Writing a Good Prayer Letter
Murphy shows how to transform a mundane prayer letter into something exciting and engaging.
Circles & Cycles: Letters to a Stressed Community
The authors ask and offer suggestions on understanding relational needs and relationship services for missionary teams.
An Interview with Bruce Olson
Bruce Olson discusses what God did during his time with the Motilone—and how he saw Christ renew a nearly extinct people.
Christological Monotheism and Muslim Evangelism
How do missionaries in Muslim churches speak of the divinity of Christ without appearing to contradict their belief in monotheism?
On Furlough: What Returning Missionaries and Home Churches Want
Ten ways missionaries on furlough and mission committees and churches can bless each other.
Personal Piety vs. Institutional Aid: A Case for a Return to Alms-giving
Daniels suggests missionaries on the field return to personal alms-giving, thereby investing in relationships on a deeper level.
An Ordinary Family in Ministry
Balisky lays out a “theology of the family in mission,” reflecting on missional families in the Bible.
Discipleship and the Missionary Kid
Godly parenting with the goal of spiritual formation of children requires a focused and strong commitment to be involved in the lives of our children.
Preparing Missionary Couples for Cultural Stress
Even the most stable marriages are severely strained in the context of cross-cultural living. Eenigenburg lists potential stressors couples may face on the field—and offers helpful tips to overcome these.
Christian Ministry: Call or Career?
A look at some of the calls to ministry in the Old and New Testaments show that each of these individuals had an amazing commitment to the commission of God.
Doing Diversity Well
Five potential guidelines for achieving diversity while maintaining unity.
Water from a Deep Well: Christian Spirituality from Early Martyrs to Modern Missionaries
Gerald Sittser’s book connects the dots between the “old” and “new” ways of being the people of God.
Understanding God’s Heart for Children: Toward a Biblical Framework
Written by practitioners, teachers, and theologians, this book offers hope for children through establishing a biblical framework that counteracts the secular devaluing of children.
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 which has largely been ignored in Western theological circles?”
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 for Jesus Christ can and must be done through scholars who live out an integrated focus on the two tasks of saving the soul and the mind.
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.