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“Why Evangelism Cannot Be Our Focus”– Alan Hirsch
When I was first introduced to the incredibly important passage in the Gospel of Matthew called “The Great Commission,” it was made very clear to me that this is Jesus’ command for his followers to...
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Contextualizing the Gospel for the Postmodern Culture
Ross Hastings, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College, offers this very helpful list of what it takes to contextualize the gospel in our postmodern culture, not only for the sake of...
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A Quick History Lesson on How We Have Understood “Christian Mission”
Part 1: Evangelicals and the Shift to Seeing Mission as Purely Evangelism. A survey of the recent history of evangelical understanding of Christian mission reveals an ebb and flow between seeing the...
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What Does it Mean to “Make Disciples?”
William Carey, in the 19th century, defined Christian mission by interpreting the “Great Commission” (“go and make disciples”)[1] as primarily the geographic expansion of Christianity by means of...
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A Crisis in Disciplemaking: Our Model for Church Mission
In this 11-minute video, Mark Greene, Executive Director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (founded by John Stott in 1982) speaks at the Lausanne Movement’s Cape Town 2010 Congress....
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Let’s (re)integrate the Mission of the Church!
Is the mission of God exclusively about evangelism or is it about that, and something more? It has been a debate that raged throughout the past century (see a brief history of that debate here and...
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The Gospel: Both “Social Action” and “Evangelism”
Ronald J. Sider, founder of Evangelicals for Social Action and author of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, has advocated for a more holistic vision of Christian ministry since 1973. He (along with...
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