Source: Missions Catalyst readers<\/p>\n
Recently Brad in Michigan asked, \u201cWhat 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?\u201d<\/p>\n
Much depends on what you hope to accomplish and the interests and attention span of your audience, but consider these 15 suggestions. I\u2019ll just list them alphabetically by author.<\/p>\n
1. Steve Beirn\u2019s Well Sent: Reimagining the Church\u2019s Missionary Sending Process<\/em> (read our review<\/a>)<\/p>\n 2. Paul Borthwick\u2019s A Mind for Missions: Ten Ways to Build Your World Vision<\/em><\/p>\n 3. Paul Borthwick\u2019s How to Be a World-Class Christian: Becoming Part of God\u2019s Global Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n 4. Mike Breen\u2019s Building a Discipleship Culture<\/em><\/p>\n 5. Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert\u2019s When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty without Hurting the Poor\u2026 and Yourself<\/em><\/p>\n 6. Kevin DeYoung\u2019s What Is the Mission of the Church? Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission<\/em><\/p>\n 7. J.D. Greear\u2019s Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send<\/em><\/p>\n 8. David Horner\u2019s When Missions Shapes the Mission: You and Your Church Can Reach the World<\/em> (read our review<\/a>)<\/p>\n 9. Jason Mandryk\u2019s Operation World: The Definitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation<\/em> (read our review<\/a>)<\/p>\n 10. Paul McGuiness\u2019 Walk This Way: A Better Path to Global Engagement<\/em> (read our review<\/a>)<\/p>\n 11. Richard Noble\u2019s On Mission Together: Integrating Missions into the Local Church<\/em> (due out this fall; we\u2019ll try to review it for you then)<\/p>\n 12. John Piper\u2019s Let the Nations Be Glad: The Supremacy of God in Missions<\/em><\/p>\n 13. Denny Spitters and Matthew Ellison\u2019s When Everything Is Missions<\/em> (read our review<\/a>)<\/p>\n 14. Richard Stearns\u2019s The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us?<\/em><\/p>\n 15. Storyline: Discovering Your Story in God\u2019s Global Mission<\/em> (read our review<\/a>)<\/p>\n \u00bb See our Google doc<\/a> for links and comments. What would you add?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Missions Catalyst readers Recently Brad in Michigan asked, \u201cWhat 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?\u201d Much depends on what you hope to accomplish and the interests and attention span of your audience, but consider these … Continue reading BOOKS: A Good Missions Intro<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-7906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906","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=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7907,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions\/7907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}