Other Books Received
Flanigan, Shawn Teresa. 2010. For the Love of God: NGOs and Religious Identity in a Violent World. Sterling, Va.: Kumarian Press. Hirsch, Alan and Debra Hirsch. 2010. Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books. Malone, Kelly. 2009. The Sword of the Spirit: How God’s Word Changes Lives. Smyrna, Del.: Missional […]
Planting Churches in the 21st Century: A Guide for Those Who Want Fresh Perspectives and New Ideas for Creating Congregations
Written for present and potential church planters, this is not so much a book of new ideas but, rather a book of ideas on how to generate new ideas relevant to the church planter’s specific cultural and economic context.
The Missional Entrepreneur: Principles and Practices for Business as Missions
The book is an excellent read for getting basic theological insight into the world of marketplace ministry.
The Meeting of the Waters: 7 Global Currents that Will Propel the Future Church
The Meeting of the Waters is not your usual “mission textbook,” but it is the kind of trends analysis that is indispensable for anticipating future church and mission.
Leadership in a Slum: A Bangkok Case Study
This book is a good contribution to the emerging literature on work in slum communities but without a specific focus on missional notions.
Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-first Century
Invitation to World Missions contains a strong biblical approach with practical suggestions.
Into the Mud: Inspiration for Everyday Activists: True Stories of Africa
The author structures the book around the stories of ten individuals, mostly unconnected to each other. The common thread is the author’s connection to each.
Gideon’s People: Being a Chronicle of an American Indian Community in Colonial Connecticut and the Moravian Missionaries Who Served There
Gideon’s People is an impressive achievement by the authors who took over a decade to translate and edit the diaries left behind by the German Moravian missionaries serving an American Indian community at Pachgatgoch in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut.
Faith and Family in Asia: The Missional Impact of Social Networks
This collection of essays, originally presented at the SEANET XI missiological forum in Chiang Mai, Thailand (January 2009), is a magnificent contribution to this issue of primal importance for missional advance.
Commissioned: What Jesus Wants You to Know as You Go
Newell approaches the Great Commission narratives as sequential rather than synoptic. Each of the five Great Commission passages builds on the others to present the Commission.