Written by 21st-century field workers, scholars and church leaders, this original ebook provides a companion to Discovering the Mission of God: Best Missional Practices for the 21st Century. In sixteen original chapters, you're invited to explore the mission of God as presented in the Bible, expressed throughout church history and in cutting-edge best practices being used around the world today. Like its parent volume, this reader provides global perspective, recent missiological research, case studies, recommended further readings and relevant discussion questions at the end of each chapter.Contributors include:Mike BarnettJohn BradyMike EdensCharles FieldingGordon FortMarty GlickmanJames M. HamiltonScott HarrisPeter HawkinsPatrick LaiClyde MeadorRebekah A. NaylorJ. Jeffrey PalmerJ. D. PayneTimothy M. PierceBrad RoderickNatalie ShepherdJerry Rankin

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.

1. Israel's Mission to All Peoples
Timothy M. Pierce
2. The Love of God
Gordon Fort
3. The Power and Presence of the Holy Spirit
James M. Hamilton Jr.
4. Letter from the Field
Brother John
5. The Business of Building Bridges
Patrick Lai
6. God's Mission Today Through Prayer
Natalie Shepherd and Peter Hawkins
7. Equippers for God's Mission
Marty Glickman
8. Jesus Christ: The Way, the Truth, and the Life?
Brad Roderick
9. The Left Side of the Graph
Clyde Meador
10. Breaking Old Habits
Rebekah A. Naylor
11. Principles and Practices
Mike Barnett
12. Measuring Church Planting Progress at Avant
Scott Harris
13. Human Needs Ministries for God's Mission
J. Jeffrey Palmer
14. Preach and Heal
Charles Fielding
15. Church and Agency Co-Laboring
Jerry Rankin and Mike Edens
16. Eleven Implications for the North American Church
J. D. Payne