Hospitality and Cuisine: Creating a Welcoming Space
By Jaewoo Kim | The arts of hospitality and shared meals offer a warm welcome to a global community into the church while sustaining the relationships of those already following Christ. Yet to do this well requires intentionality.
Engaging Scientists Through the Visual Arts
By Geinene Carson | When my daughter was diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder around a decade ago, my life changed radically. An abrupt introduction to the demanding world of caregiving disrupted art making and ministry as I had previously known it. However, I eventually discovered that this environment I now found myself in was an unanticipated source of inspiration.
Mission-Driven Church Planting
Church planting among every people group is at the center of God’s mission. Ken Davis’ book, Foundations for Fruitful Church Planting, connects church planting with global mission.
Understanding Dechurching
In The Great Dechurching, authors Jim Davis, Michael Graham, and Ryan Burge present a thorough examination of dechurching in the United States, investigating the departure of approximately 40 million adults from regular church attendance over the past 25 years.
Solving Problems of Distrust
Our church-planting team attempted to help financially struggling new believers in our emerging church. Our results mirrored so many other stories when we first started a home construction company and later started a grocery co-op: Both times, we failed.
Clarifying Mission’s Purpose
Despite abundant mission teaching and scholarship today, is it possible that the term “mission” has become fuzzy? What does “on mission” actually mean?
Effective Witnesses of Christ
“Have you been born again, again?” This is the question Darrell Whiteman has asked students of missions over the years. The first experience of being born again is obviously one’s conversion, as described in John 3:1–15.
Breaking Language Barriers
Jonathan Downie brings his experience as a professional interpreter and published researcher in interpretation studies to the service of multiethnic churches and communities.
Breaking Barriers to Evangelism
In his book Gospel Issues for the Global Church, Brent H. Burdick addresses “gospel issues,” which he identifies as concerns that pose a hindrance to “effective global evangelization today” (xi).
Fashioning Mission Frameworks
The Mission Matrix is not a theology of mission. Instead, it offers a framework for thinking theologically about mission. How are we to understand our God-assigned mission in our specific context and time? This book aims to help both students and practitioners answer that question.