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Missions: Biblical Foundations And Strategies by Gailyn Van Rheenen, pages (August ) Zondervan Publishing House
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The Produce of Clever Theology : Empowering Holy orders With Theological Praxis unwelcoming Ray Town Anderson pages (February ) Intervarsity Press
What Is Mission? : Theological Explorations shy J. Saint Kirk pages (February ) Fortress Press
Changing the Think of of Missions : Where Have Incredulity Gone Wrong? by Criminal F. Engel, William A. Dyrness pages (February ) Intervarsity Press
God&#;s Global Decorated : What We Gawk at Learn stick up Christians Clutch the Earth by Missionary Gordon Author, John R. W. Stott pages (January ) Intervarsity Press
Evangelical Thesaurus of Globe Missions (Baker Reference Library) by A. Scott Moreau (Editor), Harold, A. Netland (Editor), pages
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Takaaki Hara
There are two Greats in the Bible that Christians, particularly those of the evangelical persuasion, regularly refer to: the Great Commandment (Matt –40) and the Great Commission (Matt –20)[1]. As Douglas Small says, “The Great Commission is proclamation—what we tell them. But the Great Commandment is incarnation—what they see in our lives.”[2] He further observes:
The Great Commission operates on the continuum of truth, the Great Commandment on the continuum of love. If we have truth (the Great Commission) without love (the Great Commandment), we have no truth at all, only hollow sounds. If we have love without truth, we have only a sweet wrapping for a lie. Love without truth is deceptive, hypocritical, and unpredictable, and in the end not love at all. The message of Jesus is in the crosshairs of love and truth.
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What is the relationship between the Great Commandment and the Great Commission? Are they of equal significance, or is one subservient to the other? The debate over this issue has persisted for some time. Christopher Little contends that evangelism is paramount for Christians while social action is not and even asserts that “word apart from deed is a perfectly legitimate expression of Christian mission.”[4] John Piper, on the other hand, claim
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Cities: Mission’s New Frontier
Written by Roger S. Greenway and Timothy M. Monsma Reviewed By Craig Blomberg
For people who still believe overseas mission largely involves rural ministry in backward places, this book is must reading. The authors show that the biblical (especially Pauline) paradigms for ministry targeted the cities as the strategic centres from which to disseminate the gospel. Current demographic trends virtually all point to the continued expansion of megalopolises for years to come. Individual chapters in this volume cover very specific, practical considerations (how to survey a community in order to understand its ethnic, social, and economic subgroups or how to minister to prostitutes) and very sweeping, theoretical models (the stages of church growth or church-state relationships). Not every conclusion is equally defensible, but in an age when Western (and especially American) Christianity is fleeing to the suburbs as fast as it can, prophetic mandates to return to the city, such as this one, are desperately needed.
Craig Blomberg
Craig Blomberg
Denver Seminary
Denver, Colorado, USA