Mission: An Essential Guide

Rating:
Summary: Nothing New - Not Authentic
Review: The concepts in this book are not particularly deep, but they are hard to understand. It speaks in twisted words and phrases. Don't assume salvation means what you think it does. But don't worry, because there are plenty of diagrams to help you understand the concepts! It was not until the end that I figured out why this was true: Mission, in this book, is not the mission of which the Bible speaks. It isn't sharing the gospel, because he doesn't really know what gospel it is that he wants to share. So he disembodies mission from Christ - not quite sure if there even is a gospel. He calls himself evangelical, but this is not using the word honestly. He would rather all religious just synthesize into one big happy family and forgo truth.

Go buy:
"Transforming Mission" by David Bosch, "Christianity in Culture" by Charles Kraft, or "Classic Texts in Mission and World Christianity" by Norman E Thomas. A friend loaned me these books and I was relieved to find some real struggle to get mission right. Minus the baggage of someone who feels missionaries did him wrong. These are longer books and there are no diagrams (please?!?!?), but you will have something meaningful when you are finished - Something that speaks of sharing the goodnews of Christ with others.