Preface
Jerry Rankin
Acknowledgments
Mike Barnett
Introduction: Discovering the Mission of God
Mike Barnett
Part One: The Mission of God in the Bible
God's Mission
1. Word of God and Mission of God
Christopher J. H. Wright
2. The Missionary Message of the New Testament
Joel F. Williams
3. The Supremacy of God in Missions Through Worship
John Piper
4. The Kingdom of God and His Mission
Alex LucM
5. God's Great Commissions for the Nations
Jeff Lewis
God's Method
6. Jesus Christ-the Living Word-and the Mission of God
Bryan E. Beyer
7. The Heart of the Task
Zane Pratt
8. The Church in the Mission of God
Preben Vang
God's Power
9. The Power of the Gospel
Robert L. Plummer
10. The Passion of Christ and the Martyrs
Jerry Rankin
Part Two: The Mission of God in History
Ancient Eras
11. The First Decades of the Mission of God
William J. Larkin, Jr.
12. The Ante-Nicene Church on Mission
John Mark Terry
13. The Gospel Goes East
Zane Pratt
Missionaries and Movements
14. Monastics on Mission
Karen O'Dell Bullock
15. Post-Reformation Missions Pioneers
R. Alton James
16. The Great Century
Howard Norrish
17. The Global Century
Mike Barnett
Part Three: The Mission of God Today
The Task
18. The State of the Spread of the Gospel
Jim Haney
19. Finishing the Task
J. Scott Holste
20. Spiritual Warfare and the Mission of God
Jerry Rankin
21. Apostles Even Now
Don Dent
22. Strategic Prayer for God's Mission
Mike Barnett
Communicating the Gospel Across Cultures
23. Cultures and Worldviews
Stan May
24. Tell His Story So That All Might Worship
LaNette W. Thompson
25. Comprehensive Contextualization
A. Scott Moreau
26. Effective Bridging and Contextualization
Kevin Greeson
27. Back to Basics
William R. Yount
Through the Church
28. Church-Planting Movements
David Garrison
29. Measuring Progress in the Mission of God
Gary R. Corwin
30. Breaking Bad Missiological Habits
Christopher R. Little
31. Multiplying Leaders on Mission with God
R. Bruce Carlton
32. Creative-Access Platforms
Tom Steffen
33. Biblical Lessons from the Persecuted Church
Nik Ripken and Kurt Nelson
Co-Laboring
34. Women on Mission with God
Meg Page
35. Caring for God's Missionaries
Robert Edwards and Nathan Evans
36. The Trouble with Our Jerusalems
Ed Stetzer
37. The Local Church and the Mission of God
H. Al Gilbert
38. Where Do You Fit in the Mission of God?
Clyde Meador
About the Contributors
Subject Index
Scripture Index

Mike Barnett (Ph.D., Southwestern Seminary) is dean of the College of Intercultural Studies at Columbia International University. He teaches courses on church-planting movements, leadership and teams, creative access (business as mission), and the history of global Christianity. He also serves as national vice president of publications for the Evangelical Missiological Society. He has a business background and continues to work in international business development. He and his wife, Cindy, served for twelve years with the International Mission Board.
Robin Martin has written for newspapers and magazines and worked as an editor for twenty-five years. She has served with the International Mission Board in East Asia, Central Asia, London and Cyprus--part of that time as a member of an overseas correspondent team. She is a graduate of Baylor University and currently lives and works in Virginia with her husband, Don, and children Donnie, Sarah and Stirling--her favorite assignments to date.