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Encountering Theology of Mission: Biblical Foundations, Historical Developments, and Contemporary Issues is unavailable, but you can change that!

This fresh, comprehensive text fills a need for an up-to-date theology of mission. The authors, who are leading mission experts, discuss biblical theology of mission, provide historical overviews of the development of various viewpoints, and address current theological issues in global mission from an evangelical perspective. They offer creative approaches to answering some of the most pressing...

C. J. H. Wright correctly comments that the cross of Christ is “the unavoidable center of our mission” (2006, 314), because whatever forms of evil we confront—spiritual, social, economic, physical, or mental—it is the power of the cross that disarms evil, defeats Satan, transforms sinful humans, and is the foundation of the coming kingdom of righteousness and glory. Thus the cross is central to both mandates. And yet the message of the cross is made explicit and the power of the cross released only
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