The Sword of the Spirit: How God's Word Changes Lives
Kelly Malone (Missional Press, 2010)

Spiritual change is not the result of mere human ingenuity, effort or methodology. The Sword of the Spirit challenges us to allow God's Spirit to use God's Word to transform us into the likeness of God's Son, Jesus Christ. As God's Word comes to life in us, He enables us to change the world for Him.

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Missional House Churches
Reaching Their Communities with the Gospel
J.D. Payne (Paternoster, 2008)

Missional House Churches examines the impact and effect that house churches are having in the United States in evangelizing, discipling, and church planting in local communities. Based on the author's firsthand research and interview with over thirty missional house churches as well as his own experiences, this insightful work offers an inside look at and analysis of the workings of the missional house church.

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Breakthrough! Steps to Research and Resolve the Mysteries in Your Ministry
Stan Nussbaum (GMI Research Services, 2007)

A field research manual ideal for D.Min. and D.Miss. projects or for much smaller projects relating to a missionary's own situation. The manual walks the learner through the design and execution of the project, integrating everything with prayer. The desired result is discernment of God's guidance about what to do next and what to do differently so a practical breakthrough may occur.

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Called to Reach: Equipping Cross-cultural Disciplers
William R. Yount & Mike Barnett (Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2007)

What's a cross-cultural discipler? It's someone who crosses distinct cultural barriers—whether at home or abroad—to share the gospel and develop other effective Christian disciples.

Think of the apostle Paul who was born into a Jewish heritage but preached in Greece and Rome among other places, or modern day missionaries, both short-term and long-term, who bravely go where God sends them despite the challenges of language and lifestyle differences when they get there.

Called to Reach is a much-needed book of encouragement and training for crosscultural disciplers new and old. Based on the authors' dynamic experiences, it defines seven characteristics that best enhance the effectiveness of disciplers in overcoming cultural barriers and emphasizes the importance of personally growing in spiritual maturity with every outreach opportunity. Throughout, Jesus is presented as the model cross-cultural discipler, for He left the culture of Heaven to disciple us in our earthly culture.

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Discovering Missions
Charles R. Gailey and Howard Culbertson (Beacon Hill Press, 2007)

"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded to you." Matthew 28:19-20 NIV

The study and practice of missiology is important to the Church today. Christ's commandment to go into all the world and tell others of God's love for them is central to every Christian's responsibility and purpose.

Discovering Missions is a foundational textbook that examines the importance of missionary work overseas as well as within one's community. With perception and relevancy, it supplies understanding and awareness for important terms and practices related to mission work and strengthens one's calling to serve others and teach them about Christ. Objectives, sidebars, key-word lists, and discussion questions are included in each chapter to enrich the reader's study and comprehension.

Discovering Missions offers capable, qualified teaching on the study of missions and is an valuable tool for seminaries and universities as well as pastors and laypeople seeking to increase their comprehension of missiology and its impact on the Church and the world today.

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Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions in Christian Missions Today
David J. Hesselgrave (Kregel, 2006)

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Remnant and Renewal: The New Russian Messianic Movement
Dr. Mitch Glaser and Alan Shore (2006)

Remnant and Renewal tells the story of the Russian-speaking Jewish people and the sometimes heartbreaking, often heroic tale of those who have sought to bring the Gospel to them throughout their troubled history. Now liberated from the bonds of Communism, these newest Jewish immigrants have sought a new life in Israel, Germany, the United States, and elsewhere around the world. In doing so, they have found something they might never have expected—that the Gospel of Jesus the Messiah has not only brought them salvation, but has restored their heritage as God's chosen people.

The first person testimonies of Chosen People Ministries' Russian staff members contained in these pages will move you and inspire you as you travel with them along the daunting path toward faith and true freedom in Messiah.

To order your copy, please contact Chosen People Ministries at 1-888-293-7482 or online at www.chosenpeople.com.

Why Are Americans Like That? A Visitor's Guide to American Cultural Values and Expectations
Stan Nussbaum (Enculturation Books, 2005)

This abridged and simplified version of American Cultural Baggage is designed for those who are coming to America, working with Americans, or studying English as a second language. Sixty Ask an American questions are included, plus footnotes defining the more difficult words. A perfect gift book for international students, visitors, or colleagues.

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A Reader's Guide to Transforming Mission
Stan Nussbaum (Orbis Books, 2005)

This guide is the quickest and easiest way to approach Bosch's classic but demanding book on the theology of mission. Nussbaum, a student and friend of Bosch, follows his chapter outlines and includes many cross-references and short quotes from Transforming Mission. He adds tables, diagrams, and discussion questions, helping ordinary readers understand Bosch and apply his insights to their own situations.

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American Cultural Baggage: How to Discover and Deal with It
Stan Nussbaum (Orbis Books, 2005)

Americans in cross-cultural work typically study the other culture but not their own American culture which has them deeply in its grip. At last here is an easy-to-read expose of the way that culture controls their everyday lives and interferes with their effectiveness. Once cultural values are brought up to a conscious level, a person can choose how to deal with them instead of being forced to live by them. Cartoons.

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Azusa Street and Beyond: 100 Years of Commentary on the Global Pentecostal/Charismatic Movement
Grant McClung (Bridge-Logos Publishers, 2005)

In honor of the Azusa Street Centennial Anniversary, Grant McClung has collected the works of many of the men who have chronicled or led the Pentecostal movement for the past 100 years and put their essays into a single volume that is considered by many the "one central sourcebook on Pentecostal missions and church growth. This book includes: History (a visit to Azusa Street), Theology, Practice, Future of Pentecostal missions, and much more.

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Cross-cultural Storytelling at Home and Abroad
Tom A. Steffen (Authentic, 2005)

Oftentimes, we think stories are for children. But using the Bible as evidence, we see that God communicated his truth to men and women of all cultures, time, and places by way of many small stories forming one large story.

While possessing a rich heritage of storytelling, too many evangelicals have forfeited this vital skill. Tom Steffen’s aim is to help readers recapture the most natural, universal, and effective means of evangelism-discipleship that exists—storytelling.

This book is not just theory—it provides practical help by identifying the roles and tasks that are necessary to become an effective storyteller in another culture. Steffen offers creative tools and introduces practical ways to increase many of the storytelling skills for evangelism- discipleship. He moves us beyond linear gospel outlines, Western logic and organization, and individual responses to traditional evangelism rituals, to a mode of communication that respects the audience, making it easy for them to grasp what they have heard and to pass it on to others with minimal loss of content.

By reconnecting storytelling to ministry, readers will be more comfortable in sharing the gospel, both at home and abroad.

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Introducing World Missions
Gary Corwin, Gary McGee, Scott Moreau (Baker Academic, 2004)

Introducing World Missions, the first volume in the Encountering Mission series, provides readers with a broad overview of the biblical, theological, and historical foundations for missions. It considers personal and practical issues involved in becoming a missionary, the process of getting to the mission field, and contemporary challenges a mission worker must face. This valuable guide is based on current research and includes numerous case studies that consider important issues, as well as sidebars, charts, and maps that provide further details on topics of interest. Altogether, this is an engaging introduction to the work of missions in the contemporary world.

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Great Commission Companies
Steve Rundle and Tom Steffen (InterVarsity Press, 2003)

In recent decades global missions have been revolutionized by such movements as microenterprise development efforts and tentmaking professionals working in restricted access countries. But little has yet been said about the new missions opportunities created by today's globalized economy. Nor has much been documented about the role that corporations and businesses can have in the missionary enterprise.

Economist Steve Rundle and missiologist Tom Steffen offer a new paradigm for the convergence of business and missions--the Great Commission Company. These companies intentionally create businesses in strategic locations, pursuing profits while remaining unabashedly Christian in their purpose. By establishing authentic businesses that employ local workers among the least-reached peoples of the world, they contribute to the economic health of the immediate community and also provide avenues for both physical and spiritual ministry.

Based on a five-year study of groundbreaking enterprises like Pura Vida Coffee, this volume offers keen analysis of the principles and practices of these companies. In an era where multinational corporations have global influence and impact, the Great Commission Company opens up new possibilities for missions-minded entrepreneurs and businesspeople who want to change the world to the glory of God.

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Christians at the Religious Roundtable
Timothy C. Tennent (Baker Publishing, 2002)

Writers who portray Christianity as one among many valid religions betray the historic Christian confessions, yet continue to call themselves Christian, asserts Tennent (world missions, Gorden-Conwell Theological Seminary). Writing from the point of view of an evangelical Christian, he offers an alternative approach—engaging the tenets of the other major religions and, essentially, making the case that they are deficient.

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Business as Usual in the Missions Enterprise?
Tom A. Steffen (Center for Organizational and Ministry Development, 1999)

Using both humor and practical insights, Steffan tackles highly critical issues in the fast-changing mission environment. Through a creative story, he demonstrates (1) the complexity of short-term, cross-cultural ministry, (2) the need to be a learner before a teacher, and (3) the attainability of the task when done through synergistic partnerships. The plan presented here will prove valuable to sending churches and their missionaries engaged in our multi-cultural global world.

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Passing the Baton: Church Planting that Empowers
Tom A. Steffen (Revised edition, Center for Organizational and Ministry Development, 1997)

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