Book reviews

Theological Education is Changing!

Reviewed by Christopher Flanders | Theological education is changing! Many today recognize the significant, even seismic shifts that have forced institutions of theological preparation in North America to face “realities that cry out for dramatic change”. In this brief treatment, Mark Young, president of Denver…

How God Shapes People for Vocational Missions

Reviewed by A. Sue Russell | In recent years, many books have discussed the concept of missional recognizing that the post-Christian West is a mission field. Some focus theologically on the concept of missio Dei, God’s redemptive mission and the Church’s participation in it.

What Guides the Church’s Mission?

Reviewed by Marcus Dean | In Apostolic Imagination, J. D. Payne tackles the hot-button question of “What is Mission?”. Is it everything the Church does, or is it more limited and focused? Should all the good things the Church does be labeled as mission?

What Factors Contribute to DMMs?

Reviewed by Karry Kelley | Motus Dei (movement of God in Latin) is a useful introduction to church planting movements (CPMs) and disciple-making movements (DMMs). Editor Warrick Farah and the other missiologists who contributed chapters aim to answer the question “What factors are contributing to the increase of…

This History of the Church in China

Reviewed by Gene Wilson | Richard Cook brings us a thorough, balanced, and inviting history of the Church in China based on four decades of firsthand experience and research. He traces the history of the Church there, going back to the first known believer reached by Nestorians.

Multiplying Leaders in Intercultural Contexts: Recognizing and Developing Grassroots Potential

This book seeks to facilitate grassroots leaders, like small group and women leaders who interface between the church and their surrounding world but who are usually unrecognized.

Unstacking Your Grief Tower: A Guide to Processing Grief as an Adult Third Culture Kid

This book aims to equip parents of third culture kids (TCKs) and those who work with TCKs (or TCK caregivers) to walk these children and teens through processing their grief using the concept of unstacking their grief tower (or accumulated pain).

Mobilizing Movements: Leadership Insights for Discipling Whole Nations

This book advocates that every nation needs a well-led national church-planting process, which can greatly accelerate the penultimate step toward completion of the Great Commission.

No Shortcut to Success

Gospel Witness Through the Ages

Migration and the Making of Global Christianity

Women in the Mission of the Church

Advancing Models of Mission

A Third of Us

Uncharted Mission

Educating Children Overseas

Spiritual Formation for the Global Church

Mission Affirmed

The Loneliness Epidemic

Turning Points in the Expansion of Christianity

Is the Commission Still Great?: 8 Myths about Missions & What They Mean for the Church

“The Great Commission is the central message of the Bible, the burning passion of God, and the primary responsibility of the church in this age.” Page 16

Mission in the Way of Daniel: Empowering Believers to Live into God’s Plan

This book seeks to unpack the five qualities of Daniel’s mission within the book of Daniel, arguing that these qualities are needed on mission today.

Mobilizing Gen Z: Challenges and Opportunities for the Global Age of Missions

This book discusses the work of mobilizing Gen Z (young people born between 1996 and 2010) for global ministry in this tumultuous time of change and complexity and in the context of the global age of missions.

The How-Tos of Women in Leadership

However, an enormous gap still remains between men and women in the top leadership echelon of financial and educational institutions. This gap is also reflected in evangelical mission organizations where women comprise two-thirds of the mission workforce yet only a handful are in positions of leadership.