Missions

This accessible overview shows how the Bible--with its 66 books, dozens of authors, and multiple genres--comes together to provide an overarching s...

While the gospel is timeless truth, it enters into ever-changing and widely varied human contexts. The missionary who desires to meaningfully commu...

John Taylor’s most famous book is reminder that the Spirit urges us toward a communal humanity. Taylor’s is a message especially pertinent in an ag...

In this scripturally rich exploration, senior missiologist Craig Ott unpacks the mission statement of the church: to glorify God by multiplying tra...

Following Sherwood Lingenfelter's successful books on ministering, teaching, and leading cross-culturally (with combined sales of over 200,000 copi...

Representing the fruit of a lifetime of reflection and practice, this comprehensive resource helps teachers understand the way people in different ...

Subversive mission is submission—to God and local leaders. Subversive mission offers a new way forward for outsiders called to crosscultural minist...

Networked churches are the primary church planting force in evangelicalism today—but what makes them so effective, why do they remain so under-appr...

Going on a short-term missions trip can be a life- and faith-transforming experience. It can enrich the way we view the world. It can cause us to r...

The SCM Studyguide: Christian Mission explores the nature of Christian mission in contemporary post-modern society.It presents a range of answers f...

This book proposes to bring together three elements for the benefit of those researching practice in ministry and mission: * how to design research...

How does the church’s calling to take the whole gospel to the whole world manifest in contexts of poverty, injustice, and conflict? In this collect...

Essential teaching for every short- and long-term outreach participant & every church and mission agency that sends them. Peter Jordan's vita...

The gospel is for every tribe, tongue, and nation (Revelation 7:9), but there is no single biblical or theological model for the relationship betwe...

The Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference was the most famous missions conference in modern church history. A century later, five conferences ...

Contrary to popular sentiment, Christianity is not dull or out of touch but fresh, relevant, exciting, and contemporary. The Church is political be...

The need to train Christian missionaries was an afterthought of the Protestant missionary movement in the early nineteenth century. The Basel Missi...

Strategic partnerships are on the rise around the world as denominations, organizations, local churches and individuals seek ways to work together ...

Every congregation needs to determine how it will organize to best proclaim the Gospel, administer the Sacraments, and care for its members. While ...

Most everything in the world has changed since the age of the “Greatest Missionary Generation,” which was an outpouring of missionaries following W...

Mission in Contemporary Scotland is the first book to fully examine the challenges and opportunities of Christian mission in contemporary Scotland....

The Father delights in his Son. This is the starting point of mission, its very core. The word 'mission' means 'sending'. But for many centuries ...

How did Christian mission happen in the early church from AD 100 to 750? Beginning with a brief look at the social, political, cultural, and religi...

The third book in The Mission and Marginal Series looks at the lessons we can learn from the testimonies of people living and working on the margin...

This model for effective personal relationships in a multicultural and multiethnic world has proven successful for many. On the occasion of its thi...

Patronage governs many relationships in Majority World cultures. But regrettably, Western theologians and missionaries rarely notice this prominent...

The terrain of church missions is often bewildering. Should we prioritize evangelism or works of service? Local ministries or overseas missions? Wh...

The church in Africa is growing faster in sheer numbers than in any other place or time in the history of Christianity. With two-thirds of sub-Saha...

Want to communicate Jesus authentically in all you say and do? This guidebook offers practical steps to make mission integral to your everyday life...

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and tr...

According to Scot McKnight, kingdom is the biblical term most misused by Christians today. It has taken on meanings that are completely at odds wit...

Battling the Myths that Threaten God’s Great Plan The primary purpose of the church is to bless all peoples of the world through the gospel of Jesu...

Is everything a Christian does 'mission', or does it only count when we speak about Jesus and share the gospel? Does mission include volunteering a...

Following Sioux Center Sudan comes another historical account of Arlene Schuiteman's missionary work. Iowa Ethiopia brings us to one of the world's...

Luther and Calvin, the great reformers of the sixteenth century, are remembered for their writings and theological debates, but do we think of them...

The task of reconciliation with God, ourselves and others is an integral element of the mission of God that has been entrusted to his people and le...

Innumerable books have been written about successful outreach and evangelism, yet almost none address the centrality of the family as God's intende...

Forces of division, conflict, and fear threaten to separate us from the neighbor who does not look, act, or pray like us. However, followers of Chr...

A missionary family, a violent attack, and one woman’s brave determination to break free from trauma. Jadie’s story is one of forgiveness, hope, he...

This book argues for a positive, biblically rigorous vision of the local churchÕs (and the individual ChristianÕs) weighty responsibility to do goo...

We live in a world where more and more people are coming to Christ from various cultural backgrounds—and this calls for fresh thinking about the ch...