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Toward the Twenty-First Century in Christian Mission: Essays in Honor of Gerald H. Anderson is unavailable, but you can change that!

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive survey of the status of Christian missions in all parts of the world. With a preface by Lesslie Newbigin and contributions from more than two dozen top mission scholars from every continent, editors James M. Phillips and Robert T. Coote have compiled the most insightful and important reflections on missions into this singular volume. The essays in...

Commission.2 All Gospels are unanimous that it is the resurrection of Jesus that generates mission. Put differently, mission is “the gospel confirmed and universalized by the power of the Resurrection” (Legrand 1990:73). The four Gospels do this in different ways. Matthew, for instance, views mission as ministry done in the consciousness of the universal authority of Jesus and of his abiding presence (28:18–20). Mission is, primarily, making disciples, that is, turning others into what the disciples
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