This bestselling textbook by leading missionary scholars offers an engaging introduction to the work of missions in the contemporary world. It provides a broad overview of the biblical, theological, and historical foundations for missions. It also considers personal and practical issues involved in becoming a missionary, the process of getting to the mission field, and contemporary challenges a mission worker must face. Sidebars, charts, maps, and numerous case studies are included. This new edition has been updated and revised throughout and features a full-color interior. Additional resources for professors and students are available online through Baker Academic's Textbook eSources.
The Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions contains more than 1,400 articles on the theory, practice, theology, and history of missions. A comprehensive, one-volume reference, it not only provides a wealth...
The Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions contains more than 1,400 articles on the theory, practice, theology, and history of missions.
Two namesstandout in connection with this stream: Rick Warren andChristian Schwarz. In1980 Rick Warren founded the Saddleback Community Church in southern California, which now reports aweekly attendanceof more than sixteen thousand.
The Reasons for Romans. edinburgh: Clark. weidenmann, Ludwig. 1965. Mission und Eschatologie. ... in Douglas 1975, 213–58. winter, Ralph D., and Steven C. Hawthorne, eds. 1999. Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. 3rd ed.
GILLILAND. Reprinted with permission from Hiebert and Hiebert (1987, 202–4). The general council of the Benue Valley Church of Northern Nigeria was in a special session. It was a meeting called by the field secretary of the mission, ...
Phillips, Barbara. 1996. City Lights. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. Pierce, Robert W., and Rebecca Merrill Groothuis, eds. ... New York: Simon & Schuster. ———. 2003. Better Together: Restoring the American Community.
Dramatic changes have taken place in global society and in the church that have implications for how the church does missions in the twenty-first century. This guide helps readers understand these trends.
Clark Pinnock embraces the idea that people from other religions will be saved without knowing Christ. “We do not need to think of the church as the ... Dennis L. Okholm and Timothy R. Phillips (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995), 95–123.
Students will benefit from the chapters on understanding the call to missions and the current status of world evangelization. All readers will profit from a valuable one-volume reference work on missions.
77 Laqueur, Walter, 43 Larkin, William, Jr., 144, 145, 149 las Casas, Bartolomé de, 245 Last Days of Europe, The (Laqueur), 43 Late Great Planet Earth, The (Lindsey), 463 Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 36n. 51, 257 Lausanne Covenant (1974), ...