Christian Mission in the Modern World, Revised and Expanded Edition
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Jesus sends us into the world just as the Father sent him. And yet thousands of years later Christians continue to disagree on what this involves. Some believe that the focus of Christian mission is evangelizing and “saving souls.” Others emphasize global justice issues or relief and development work. Is either view correct on its own?
John Stott’s classic book presents an enduring and holistic view of Christian mission that is just as needed today. Newly updated and expanded by Christopher J. H. Wright, Christian Mission in the Modern World provides a biblically based approach to mission that addresses both spiritual and physical needs.
With his trademark and unparalleled clarity and conviction, Stott illuminates how the Great Commission itself not only assumes the proclamation that makes disciples, but also teaches obedience to the Great Commandment of love and service. Wright has expertly updated the original book and demonstrates the continuing relevance of Stott’s prescient thinking. This balanced approach to mission offers timeless guidance for current and future Christians to embrace Jesus’ unconflicted and holistic model of ministry.
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- Reinforces Stott’s original 1975 text’s rejection of the “sacred vs. secular” divide in ministry.
- Expands Stott’s work by aligning it with the internationally recognized “Five Marks of Mission”.
- Prevents missionary burnout by anchoring missions in the character of God rather than human strategies.
- Preface to the First Edition
- Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
- Mission
- Reflections on Mission
- Evangelism
- Reflections on Evangelism
- Dialogue
- Reflections on Dialogue
- Salvation
- Reflections on Salvation
- Conversion
- Reflections on Conversion
John Stott’s Christian Mission in the Modern World is a small classic and remains surprisingly relevant for today. And no one is more qualified than Chris Wright to bring the discussion up-to-date—to expand, reframe and even sometimes disagree with Stott’s work on certain issues within the evangelical and biblical commitment shared by both. This will prove to be an excellent basic introduction to mission and evangelism, along with providing a biblical understanding of salvation, dialogue and conversion for Christian mission. But it will also be a helpful guide to how evangelical thinking on mission has developed in the past four decades by two of its premier exponents.
—Michael W. Goheen, author of Introducing Christian Mission Today and A Light to the Nations