Book reviews
Reviews of the books shaping mission thinking and practice. Page 36 of 40 · 942 in all.
Stop Witnessing and Start Loving
Affect someone’s heart motivation and you will increase their effectiveness of reaching non-Christians, regardless of the methodology used.
Christians and Missionaries in India
Frykenberg provides an overview of the complex origins of Christians in India.
No Quick Fixes: The Challenge of Mission in a Changing South Africa
How is the church in South Africa doing? What is the church in South Africa doing? The importance of this excellent and interesting small volume goes beyond answering these questions; it also gives us a model for examining the church in other nations.
More than a Prophet: An Insider’s Response to Muslim Beliefs about Jesus and Christianity
This book is a useful handbook to help Christians examine and defend the faith with intellectual honesty in a pluralistic society, and with their Muslim friends.
Sharing Jesus in the Buddhist World
A collection of nine essays, coming out of the 4th SEANET forum held in Thailand in March 2002.
Back to Jerusalem: Called to Complete the Great Commission
The Back to Jerusalem Movement is the vision of the Chinese underground house church leaders to train, send, and support physically and spiritually thousands of Chinese missionaries to Buddhists, Hindus, and especially Muslims, thus bringing the gospel full circle to Jerusalem in anticipation of Christ’s return to…
One World or Many? The Impact of Globalisation on Mission
Several years ago I sat in a class taught by Paul Hiebert as he pled for missionaries in a global era to recognize that emerging churches around the world should not just be self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating, but should also be self-theologizing.
Signs Amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History
The late Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was one of the most important and influential missionary-theologians of the twentieth century. We are grateful to Wainwright and his publishers for bringing to light these lectures and doing such a fine job of introduction, redaction, and publication.
Building Strategic Relationships: A Practical Guide to Partnering with Non-Western Missions
Daniel Rickett examines partnerships between Western churches and their international counterparts.
Maximum Impact Short-term Missions
Peterson, Aeschliman and Sneed take the whole wild and woolly world of short-term missions (STM) and define, defend, and redesign it.
Starting a New Church
A practical guidebook for those who will start a church.
Cat and Dog Theology
A dog says, “You pet me, you feed me, you shelter me, you love me, you must be God.” A cat says, “You pet me, you feed me, you shelter me, you love me, I must be god.”
Loving the Church, Blessing the Nations
Local churches today are reassessing their proper function in fulfilling the mission mandate in relation to that of mission agencies. Addressing this need, the author describes the biblical rationale and explains the operating philosophy of the Antioch Network.
Where There is No Psychiatrist
The book will be of help to a wide range of people working cross-culturally, as well as within their own culture.
Sharing Jesus in the Buddhist World
A collection of nine essays, coming out of the 4th SEANET forum held in Thailand in March 2002.
Back to Jerusalem: Called to Complete the Great Commission
The Back to Jerusalem Movement is the vision of the Chinese underground house church leaders to train, send, and support physically and spiritually thousands of Chinese missionaries to Buddhists, Hindus, and especially Muslims, thus bringing the gospel full circle to Jerusalem in anticipation of Christ’s return to…
One World or Many? The Impact of Globalisation on Mission
Several years ago I sat in a class taught by Paul Hiebert as he pled for missionaries in a global era to recognize that emerging churches around the world should not just be self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating, but should also be self-theologizing.
Signs Amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History
The late Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) was one of the most important and influential missionary-theologians of the twentieth century. We are grateful to Wainwright and his publishers for bringing to light these lectures and doing such a fine job of introduction, redaction, and publication.
Building Strategic Relationships: A Practical Guide to Partnering with Non-Western Missions
Daniel Rickett examines partnerships between Western churches and their international counterparts.
Maximum Impact Short-term Missions
Peterson, Aeschliman and Sneed take the whole wild and woolly world of short-term missions (STM) and define, defend, and redesign it.
Starting a New Church
A practical guidebook for those who will start a church.
Cat and Dog Theology
A dog says, “You pet me, you feed me, you shelter me, you love me, you must be God.” A cat says, “You pet me, you feed me, you shelter me, you love me, I must be god.”
Loving the Church, Blessing the Nations
Local churches today are reassessing their proper function in fulfilling the mission mandate in relation to that of mission agencies. Addressing this need, the author describes the biblical rationale and explains the operating philosophy of the Antioch Network.
Where There is No Psychiatrist
The book will be of help to a wide range of people working cross-culturally, as well as within their own culture.