{"id":6143,"date":"2016-01-27T12:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2016-01-27T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:27:15","slug":"book-a-better-path-to-global-engagement-for-american-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6143","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: A Better Path to Global Engagement (for American Churches)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6144 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Walk-this-way.jpg\" alt=\"Walk this way\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" \/>Source: 181 Publishing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/0996228721\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/0996228721\">Walk This Way: A Better Path to Global Engagement<\/a>, by Paul McGuiness. 181 Publishing, 2015. 148 pages.<\/p>\n<p>This book is written to an American audience and from the point of view of a church leader. The \u201cbetter path\u201d it proposes is for American churches that want to engage effectively with global ministry partners, especially where the church already exists (e.g., places like Haiti and Kenya where the author\u2019s church has been working).<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate McGuiness\u2019 winsome, positive approach to this topic and his use of personal examples, analogies, and scripture to support his points. He builds on and directs the reader toward a variety of resources, ministries, and subject-area experts. These are well chosen. The result is a readable, balanced, and practical introduction to global partnership. It would be a good book for church mission teams to read and discuss together.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/0996228721\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/0996228721\">Learn more or purchase the book from Amazon<\/a> (or elsewhere) or see also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walkthisway.world\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.walkthisway.world\">book\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Two other new books to check out for yourself: Paul Borthwick\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivpress.com\/cgi-ivpress\/book.pl\/code=4437\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.ivpress.com\/cgi-ivpress\/book.pl\/code=4437\">Great Commission, Great Compassion: Following Jesus and Loving the World<\/a> and Steve Addison\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivpress.com\/cgi-ivpress\/book.pl\/code=4441\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.ivpress.com\/cgi-ivpress\/book.pl\/code=4441\">Pioneering Movements: Leadership that Multiplies Disciples and Churches<\/a>. Both are from InterVarsity Press and look worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: 181 Publishing Walk This Way: A Better Path to Global Engagement, by Paul McGuiness. 181 Publishing, 2015. 148 pages. This book is written to an American audience and from the point of view of a church leader. The \u201cbetter path\u201d it proposes is for American churches that want to engage effectively with global ministry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=6143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BOOK: A Better Path to Global Engagement (for American Churches)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}