Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-First Century (Biblia.com)

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In this practical and challenging work, Timothy Tennent lays a theological foundation for missions by underscoring the importance of the mission of God, the new creation, and a sweeping vision for the global church. He demonstrates how missions is not only central to the Christian faith—it is an essential component of an abundant and impassioned life.

David Bosch, Wright argues that through this kind of proof-texting, “we have already decided what we want to prove (i.e. that our missionary practice is biblical), and our collection of texts simply ratifies our preconception.”20 In its place, Wright proposes what he calls a “missional hermeneutic” that sees the whole of Scripture as a “missional phenomenon in the sense that it witnesses to the self-giving movement of this God toward his creation and us.”21 Wright contrasts the two approaches as

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