Guides: REL 253-4 : Foundations of Mission: Biblical Foundations

Biblical Foundations for Mission

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Advanced Missiology by Kenneth Nehrbass
ISBN: 9781725272248
Publication Date: 2021-04-02
Advanced Missiology draws the connections between the theory and practice of missions. Using the metaphor of a river, the book shows how theories "upstream" such as theology, education, anthropology, community development, and history have exerted an influence on missiology (and missiology, in turn, has gone back upstream to influence those disciplines).
Encountering Theology of Mission : biblical foundations, historical developments, and contemporary issues by Craig Ott
Publication Date: 2010-05-01
This text fills a need for an up-to-date theology of mission. It offers creative approaches to answering some of the most pressing questions in theology of mission and missionary practice today. Leading mission experts discuss biblical theology of mission, provide historical overviews of the development of various viewpoints, and address theologically current issues in global mission from an evangelical perspective. It integrates current views of the kingdom of God and holistic mission with traditional views of evangelism and church planting. It also brings theology of mission into conversation with ecclesiology and eschatology.
Israel and the Nations : a mission theology of the Old Testament by James Chukwuma Okoye
ISBN: 9781570756542
Publication Date: 2006-05-01
A missional reading of the Old Testament aimed at showing how Israel became a "missionary people" by opening its Covenant with Yahweh to the nations.
A Light to the Nations : the missional church and the biblical story by Michael W. Goheen
ISBN: 9780801031410
Publication Date: 2011-04-01
There is a growing body of literature about the missional church, but the word 'missional' is often defined in competing ways with little attempt to ground it deeply in Scripture. Michael Goheen unpacks the missional identity of the church by tracing the role God's people are called to play in the biblical story. Goheen shows that the church's identity can be understood only when its role is articulated in the context of the whole biblical story--Old and New Testament alike.
Paul's Missionary Methods : in his time and ours by Robert L. Plummer (Editor); John Mark Terry (Editor)
ISBN: 9780830857074
Publication Date: 2012-12-19
What does Paul's missions strategy mean for today? New understandings have been gained regarding Paul's milieu and missionary activity, and how his practices ought to inform missions in our ever-changing world. The contributors to Paul's Missionary Methods have revisited Paul's first-century missionary methods and their applicability today. This book examines Paul's missionary efforts in two parts - his first-century context and the implications of Paul's example for missions today.
Reading the Bible Missionally by Michael Goheen
ISBN: 9780802872258
Publication Date: 2016-12-01
Over the past half century, it has become clear that mission is a central theme in the Bible's narrative and, moreover, is central to the very identity of the church. This book deepens the emerging conversation on missional hermeneutics. Essays from top biblical and missiological scholars discuss reading the Scriptures missionally, using mission as a key interpretive lens.
Recovering the Full Mission of God : a Biblical perspective on being, doing, and telling by Dean Flemming
ISBN: 9780830840267
Publication Date: 2013-12-03
Is our gospel witness too small? Should the gospel be proclaimed in words or deeds? Are we missing something in playing the witness of words against deeds? If you are concerned about evangelizing the post-Christian West or the world beyond, you have probably debated this issue. And evangelical instincts drive us to Scripture. Flemming shows how the three strands of telling, doing and being relate in the mission of God and his people.

Recovering the Full Mission of God : a Biblical perspective on being, doing, and telling by Dean Flemming
ISBN: 9780830840267
Publication Date: 2013-12-03
Is our gospel witness too small? Should the gospel be proclaimed in words or deeds? Are we missing something in playing the witness of words against deeds? Evangelical instincts drive us to Scripture. Flemming shows how the three strands of telling, doing and being relate in the mission of God and his people.
Images of the Church in Mission by John Driver
ISBN: 9780585162065
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
John Driver explores 12 biblical images for understanding the church including pilgimage, God's new order, peoplehood, and transformation.
Jesus the evangelist : a gospel guide to the new evangelization by Allan F. Wright
ISBN: 9781616365431
Publication Date: 2013
Ministry Shaped by Mission by Paul Avis
ISBN: 9780567641182
Publication Date: 2005-03-20
The book can be divided into three sections. The first part, 'The Mission of God that Shapes our Ministry', draws on the missiological insights of Karl Barth and the Second Vatican Council concerning the missio Dei and directly relates this theme to the tasks entrusted to the Church in the Great Commission: the ministry of the Word, the celebration of the sacraments, and the exercise of pastoral responsibility. The second part, 'A Ministry Shaped by the Mission of God', clarifies the term 'ministry' and offers a more rigorous, somewhat controversial definition of ministry as work for the Church that is mandated by the Church and explicitly related to its core tasks. The third part, 'Ordained to a Ministry Shaped by Mission', applies the insights of the earlier parts to ordained and lay ministry and offers a cogent answer to the question, What difference does ordination make?
Building on the Rock: A Biblical Vision of Being Church Together from an Anabaptist-Mennonite by Walfred J. Fahrer
ISBN: 0836190017
Publication Date: 1995-07-01