Source: Missions Catalyst readers
Recently Brad in Michigan asked, “What book do you recommend to a church when they need a short general intro to missions? Who writes this stuff in a really good way?”
Much depends on what you hope to accomplish and the interests and attention span of your audience, but consider these 15 suggestions. I’ll just list them alphabetically by author.
1. Steve Beirn’s Well Sent: Reimagining the Church’s Missionary Sending Process (read our review)
2. Paul Borthwick’s A Mind for Missions: Ten Ways to Build Your World Vision
3. Paul Borthwick’s How to Be a World-Class Christian: Becoming Part of God’s Global Kingdom
4. Mike Breen’s Building a Discipleship Culture
5. Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert’s When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor… and Yourself
6. Kevin DeYoung’s What Is the Mission of the Church? Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission
7. J.D. Greear’s Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
8. David Horner’s When Missions Shapes the Mission: You and Your Church Can Reach the World (read our review)
9. Jason Mandryk’s Operation World: The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation (read our review)
10. Paul McGuiness’ Walk This Way: A Better Path to Global Engagement (read our review)
11. Richard Noble’s On Mission Together: Integrating Missions into the Local Church (due out this fall; we’ll try to review it for you then)
12. John Piper’s Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions
13. Denny Spitters and Matthew Ellison’s When Everything Is Missions (read our review)
14. Richard Stearns’s The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us?
15. Storyline: Discovering Your Story in God’s Global Mission (read our review)
» See our Google doc for links and comments. What would you add?