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Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory
by Scott W. Sunquist Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6278, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 464 pages, 2013, $34.99. —Reviewed by Brendan A. Ashley, MDiv student with…
The Rebirth of the Church: Applying Paul’s Vision for Ministry in Our Post-Christian World
by Eddie Gibbs Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6278, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 272 pages, 2013, $20.99. —Reviewed by Brian Lays, MDiv student, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.…
God Has No Favourites: The New Testament on First Century Religions
by Basil Scott Primalogue Publishing Media. #32 2nd Cross, Hutchins Road, St. Thomas Town PO, Bangalore 560 084 India, 208 pages, 2013, $9.99 Kindle. —Reviewed…
Developing a Strategy for Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Cultural Introduction
by John Mark Terry and J. D. Payne. Baker Academic, P.O. Box 6278, Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 304 pages, 2013, $26.99. —Reviewed by Gerald Roe,…
Sister Churches: American Congregations and Their Partners Abroad
by Janel Kragt Bakker Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave., New York, NY, 10016, 320 pages, 2013, $29.95. —Reviewed by Benjamin Espinoza, director of youth…
Good News from Africa: Community Transformation Through the Church
by Brian Woolnough, editor Regnum Resources for Mission, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR, UK, 125 pages, 2013, £9.99. —Reviewed by…
The New Testament on First Century Religions
by Basil Scott Primalogue Publishing Media. #32 2nd Cross, Hutchins Road, St. Thomas Town PO, Bangalore 560 084 India, 208 pages, 2013, $9.99 Kindle. —Reviewed…
From Times Square to Timbuktu: The Post-Christian West Meets the Non-Western Church
by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI 49516, 189 pages, 2013, $18.99. —Review by Chuck Davis, partner professor, Intercultural Studies, Alliance…
Beyond Literate Western Models: Contextualizing Theological Education in Oral Contexts
by Samuel E. Chiang and Grant Lovejoy, eds. International Orality Network in cooperation with Capstone Enterprises, Hong Kong, 229 pages, 2013, $9.95 (Kindle) or free…
Asia in the Making of Christianity: Conversion, Agency, and Indigeneity, 1600s to the Present
—Reviewed by Aminta Arrington, PhD candidate, Cook School of Intercultural Studies, Biola University.
Engaging Women in Mission Leadership
As an increasing number of mission agencies desire to involve more gifted women as decision-makers in their executive and board leadership structures, they are experiencing difficulty in finding them. How can we create more avenues to find, develop, support, and retain more gifted women to bring the perspective and talent that we desire for our organizations?
Fresh Expressions of Church
We aren’t mad at the Masons. We’re not at odds with the Odd Fellows. And we’ve got no beef with the Moose.The two of us just aren’t going to join the Masonic Temple, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, or the Moose Lodge. No matter how well they decorate their meeting places. No matter how well their speakers speak. We’re just not going. For one thing, their rituals seem rather peculiar to us as outsiders. More importantly, we simply don’t see that they offer us any value. Again, we aren’t in opposition to them; we’re just not going to go to their meetings or join their ranks.
Discovering the Secret Stories of God:
The woman told me her story quietly as we huddled around the table in her cramped home in Serbia. She was younger than me, and yet her face bore the deeply worn evidence of hardship and struggle for survival. Like many other Romani people in Eastern Europe, she was impoverished and illiterate, and I found myself completely captured by her story. Married at 16, she had her first of seven children at 17. Both of the men who fathered her children were abusive alcoholics.
Holistic Church Planting: Moving Beyond Polemics to Obedience
The author shows how unclear constructs hurt the cause of integration, and suggests a more fundamental point of integration for church planting and social action.
The Break Through Process: Reflections of a Missiological Field Research Coach
A simplified, yet thorough method for small-scale and personal research in missions.
Implications of Three Models of Contextualization for Local Ministry
An analysis of local attempts at theologizing within a cultural context is a tool for establishing foci for ministry.
The Power of Biblical Storytelling
Jesus was the master storyteller. He often taught people in the form of parables. Shouldn’t we do the same?
Saying the Shahada: Matters of Conscience, Creed, and Communication
Although reinterpreting Muhammad’s prophethood may lead us to a more respectful witness, we must remember that it is no witness at all if we intentionally miscommunicate.
The Chinese Church: The Next Superpower In World Mission?
The Chinese churches are at critical point in their mission outreach. Awakened and zealous, they are bound to supply global Christian mission with new blood and energy.
How Much is Adequate? In Search of Equitable Missionary Compensation
Mission leaders need hard data to help them exercise good stewardship of both the financial and human resources entrusted to them. This study of the compensation practices helps them do just that.
E-Care: Using Email as a Tool for Effective Member Care
Email is a tool that can, when combined with other relationship-enhancing activities, augment what the leader does to demonstrate true care to others.
Professional Missionary, Amateur Father: Using Missiological Principles and Family Systems Theory to Raise an Emotionally Healthy Family
The authors warn workers that neglecting to love and serve their families can lead to a failure in what it means to be in missions.
Is It a Heterogeneous or a Homogeneous Unit Principle?
More than a half-century ago, Donald McGavran introduced the world of missions to the homogeneous unit principle, the idea that church-planting efforts can be much more effective if focused on a specific ethno-linguistic people.
People Development: a Second Foundational Value of Missio Nexus
Last month I introduced the first of four foundational values that drive us at Missio Nexus to deliver what we do. These operational values have…