MissionShift Global Mission Issues in the Third Millennium

by Hesselgrave, David; Stetzer, Ed

• ISBN13: 9780805445374
• ISBN10: 0805445374
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

What is God's mission? What about contextualization? What's the future of mission, social justice, and global engagement?

Author Biography

David Hesselgrave is professor emeritus of mission at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He also served as a missionary in Japan for twelve years with the Evangelical Free Church of America, was executive director of the Evangelical Missiological Society, and has lectured in more than forty countries. Hesselgrave and his wife have three grown children.

Ed Stetzer is director of LifeWay Research and missiologist in residence at LifeWay Christian Resources in Nashville, Tennessee. He has trained pastors and church planters on five continents, holds two masters degrees and two doctorates, and has cowritten popular books including Comeback Churches and Breaking the Missional Code. Stetzer and his wife have three daughters.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Essay 1: "Mission" Defined and Described	p. 7
On Becoming Missional: Interacting with Charles Van Engen	p. 30
"Mission" and Missio Dei: Response to Charles Van Engen's "'Mission' Defined and Described"	p. 41
Defining and Describing "Mission": A Response to Charles Van Engen, Keith Eitel, and Enoch Wan	p. 51
Twelve Theses on the Church's Mission in the Twenty-first Century: In Interaction with Charles Van Engen, Keith Eitel, and Enoch Wan	p. 62
Responding to "'Mission' Defined and Described" and the Four Responders	p. 71
Essay 2: The Gospel in Human Contexts: Changing Perceptions of Contextualization	p. 82
Response to Paul G. Hiebert: "The Gospel in Human Contexts: Changing Perceptions of Contextualization"	p. 103
Response to Paul G. Hiebert: "The Gospel in Human Contexts: Changing Perceptions of Contextualization"	p. 114
A Response to Paul G. Hiebert: "The Gospel in Human Contexts: Changing Perceptions of Contextualization" and to Darrell Whiteman and Michael Pocock	p. 129
Response to Hiebert's Article: "The Gospel in Human Contexts" and to the Responses of Pocock and Whiteman	p. 144
Responding to "The Gospel in Human Contexts: Changing Perceptions of Contextualization"	p. 154
Essay 3: The Future of Evangelicals in Mission	p. 164
Looking Backward While Going Forward: A Response to Winter's Vision	p. 192
In Response to "The Future of Evangelicals in Mission"	p. 203
The Missing Key to the Future of Evangelical Mission	p. 223
In Response to Ralph Winter's "The Future of Evangelicals in Mission"	p. 233
Responding to "The Future of Evangelicals in Mission"	p. 247
Conclusion: A Scientific Postscript-Grist for the Missiological Mills of the Future	p. 256
List of Contributors	p. 296
Name Index	p. 300
Subject Index	p. 305
Scripture Index	p. 309
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