Description: Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader presents a rich collection of readings that explore the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic dimensions of world evangelization.
Contributions from more than 150 mission scholars and practitioners portray the unfolding story of the global Christian movement: its roots, its challenges, and its remarkable potential for the future. Every article offers practical wisdom enabling Christians to labor together with bold, biblical hope to see Christ named and followed among all peoples of the earth.
The fifth edition brings fresh voices and dozens of new contributions, reflecting the rapidly expanding network of national study programs that use Perspectives to mobilize the global church to fulfill God's mission. Each year more than 10,000 students--in nearly 40 countries and 9 languages--participate in Perspectives courses, discovering their role in God's story and joining his global purpose.
Brief description: Steven C. Hawthorne's mission journey began at Urbana '76, where John Stott and Ralph Winter shaped his vision for global evangelization. While earning his master's at Fuller Seminary, he copyedited the first Perspectives reader with Winter and later served as executive editor of World Christian magazine. He launched research teams to identify unreached peoples in major world cities and continued this work with Caleb Project. In 2013, he completed a PhD in biblical mission theology at Fuller. Today, he directs WayMakers, a ministry mobilizing prayer for Christ's glory, writing and speaking to ignite passion for God's global purposes.
Review Quotes: It would be unfair if we did not warn everyone who takes this book in hand, or who in any way sense the import of this subject, that these are crucial dimensions of a highly crucial task. With arresting strategy, it wrestles with the open sores and fearful spiritual darkness which ravage and wreck the lives of hundreds of millions of real people, creatures that are the highest of all creation, creatures for whom God's own Son endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down on the right hand of God . . . the Son who said, "As my Father send me, so send I you." No, you can no longer hide your eyes if you probe these pages. They will show you the permanence, the complexity, the scope, and yet the obligation deriving from the feasibility of the urgent task to which all who acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord are called.
--Ralph D. Winter