Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness
A follow-up to the authors’ Missional Church (1998), a general study of missional congregations, the present work focuses on nine groups that are divided into eight patterns of missional faithfulness in church life.
Sharing Jesus Holistically with the Buddhist World
Intentional mission activity has been done among Buddhists since Xavier in the sixteenth century. Yet little fruit have come from these efforts.
Not Less Than Everything: The Courageous Women Who Carried the Christian Gospel to China
In 1900, two-thirds of the missionaries serving in China were women. Not Less Than Everything by Valerie Griffiths details the stories of such women, mostly serving with the China Inland Mission, who took the gospel message to China from the 1820s to the mid-1900s.
Muslim and Christian Reflections on Peace: Divine and Human Dimensions
It’s great to see Christians meeting with Muslims to discuss how we can get along—and even better when the Christian representatives share a firm faith in the gospel.
Jesus and the Gospel in Africa: History and Experience
Kwame Bediako is one of the most significant contemporary voices in African evangelical theology. Richly textured, in touch with history, culture, theology and missiology, his perceptive insights are a necessity in engaging in theologizing in the African context.
In War and Famine: Missionaries in China’s Honan Province in the 1940’s
The title, In War and Famine, sounds like part of a wedding vow, to be followed by “in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, ‘til death do us part.” Perhaps the author intended as much.
Exploring the Depths of the Mystery of Christ: K. Subba Rao’s Eclectic Praxis of Hindu Discipleship
In what ways might Christianity and Hinduism properly engage one another? What does true and dynamic faith and worship look like in India?
Early Christian Mission Vol. 1: Jesus and the Twelve; Vol. 2: Paul and the Early Church
Eckhard Schnabel has written the most detailed and comprehensive history within the last one hundred years of the Christian missionary movement in the first century AD.
A Reader’s Guide to Transforming Mission
Back in the early 1990s when I read through David Bosch’s
Transforming Mission—not at one sitting, the book is too large for that—my overwhelming impression was of the work’s encyclopedic character.
The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Few topics have more coverage on the Web than HIV/AIDS. A Google search results in nearly ninety million hits. Having been a major world concern for years, AIDS finally seems to be gaining broad attention by evangelical Christians worldwide.