Breaking the Missional Code: Your Church Can Become a Missionary in Your Community (Biblia.com)

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Breaking the Missional Code by Ed Stetzer and David Putman is a clarion call for churches in the United States to act among their local communities as missionaries would in a foreign land. For in fact, the message of Jesus Christ is still foreign to many who stand in the shadows of American steeples. As our approach to outreach changes, so can countless lives in our own backyards.

Evangelism is telling people about Jesus; missions involves understanding them before we tell them. No matter what you believe about the North American context—largely reached or unreached, religious hotbed or mission field, pagan or Christian—we can all agree that large segments of people in our society have not been reached. Many aspects of our culture have yet to be influenced with the gospel. Applying missionary principles in the North American context means that we seek to understand the cultural

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