book-reviews-section-emq

The literature addressing Jesus movements is narrow, crowded, and prone to repetition. However, Robert M. Reach’s latest volume attempts to move beyond compelling testimony and lists of multiplication factors to consider the overlooked issues of movement structure and sustainability. 

“Can a Westernized, twenty-first century reading of Scripture – even with the benefit of scholarly exegesis – provide sufficient understanding of what Jesus said and people associated with him heard two thousand years ago?” (181).

The literature addressing Jesus movements is narrow, crowded, and prone to repetition. However, Robert M. Reach’s latest volume attempts to move beyond compelling testimony and lists of multiplication factors to consider the overlooked issues of movement structure and sustainability. 

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.

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.

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.

Jonathan Downie brings his experience as a professional interpreter and published researcher in interpretation studies to the service of multiethnic churches and communities.

“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.

Despite abundant mission teaching and scholarship today, is it possible that the term “mission” has become fuzzy? What does “on mission” actually mean?

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.