For anyone who wishes to understand this transforming current [of the Pentecostal movement] within contemporary Christianity, the present work will prove invaluable…. Here is a valuable contribution to modern missiology, for which those who belong to the Pentecostal or Charismatic tradition, and those who do not, should equally be grateful.’ (from the Foreword) Andrew F. Walls.. 
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Western countries are sending more and more short-term missionaries into the world every year. The exponential rise in participation now shows estimates that indicate well over 4 million westerners cross international borders every year to share the hope and message of Jesus.While this is an encouraging development in one sense, it is dangerous in another. Having been a long-term missionary that received foreign teams, a short-term missionary and team leader, and now a pastor who oversees and sends mission teams abroad, it has become apparent that we must do better. There is a legitimate risk that many of our missionaries realize little personal long-term spiritual benefit and, worse, may even have a negative effect on the people they go to serve.The following pages put forth four key principles that every short-term missionary should carry along on the journey. While there are other important concepts, many of them rely on individual context and/or denominational emphases. The four p.. 
Why do so many tentmaking businesses fail?Have you ever wondered if tentmaking is a realistic model for missions today?The head of a funding organization said to me, “I’ve been working along side tentmakers for 20 years and I have never seen a business that is profitable, sustainable, and effective in ministry! So why should we invest our time and energy into a model that doesn’t work?”Since that time I have been asking myself?“Is the model wrong?”Is tentmaking a waste of time? When we speak of Business as Missions, are we just talking about a pie-in-the-sky theory? Did the Apostle Paul fail in his profession?Absolutely not!Tentmaking businesses have failed because of 7 foundational reasons.These key reasons need to be identified and addressed to re-energize the tentmaking model.And that’s why I wrote this book!You won’t get a ton of business theory or strategy. This will only make you feel overwhelmed and unsure of how to move forward. Instead, I’ll share some rea.. 
Winner, 2007 Missions/Global Affairs BookMost Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that mission is bigger than that--there is in fact a missional basis for the Bible! The entire Bible is generated by and is all about God's mission.In order to understand the Bible, we need a missional hermeneutic of the Bible, an interpretive perspective that is in tune with this great missional theme. We need to see the "big picture" of God's mission and how the familiar bits and pieces fit into the grand narrative of Scripture.Beginning with the Old Testament and the groundwork it lays for understanding who God is, what he has called his people to be and do, and how the nations fit into God's mission, Wright gives us a new hermeneutical perspective on Scripture. This new perspective provides a solid and expansive basis for holistic mission. Wright emphasizes throughout a holistic mission as the proper shape of Christian mission. G.. 
