Table of Contents
Contributors XI
Acknowledgments XVII
Introduction Geoffrey Hartt Christopher R. Little John Wang
Part 1 Church on Mission in Biblical and Historical Perspectives
1 Basic Church: Freeing Cross-Cultural Church Planting with New Testament Essentials J. Scott Horrell 3
2 When the Church was the Mission Organization: Rethinking Winter's Two Structures of Redemption Paradigm Edward L. Smither 25
3 From Solidarity to Sodality: Compassionate Mission, Local Churches, and the Fostering of Cross-Cultural Missionary Bands Jerry M. Ireland 47
Part 2 Church on Mission in Global Perspective
4 Missions and the Local Church: One Perspective Boris Sarlabous 73
5 The Brazilian Neocharismatic Movement and International Expansion Murilo R. Melo 89
6 A Tale of Three Urban Churches: The Local Churches' Role of Mission in Contemporary China Zhiqiu Xu 115
7 Crisis and Transformation from Monocultural to Multicultural: the St. Andrew's Scots Presbyterian Church and the Sin Heng Taiwanese Presbyterian Church Guillermo Mac Kenzie 137
Part 3 Church on Mission in North American Perspective
8 Back to Mission: The Missional Church and the Black Church Michelle Raven 163
9 Engaging the African American Church in Global Missions by Recruiting African American Young Adults for Missions Education and Training Linda P. Saunders 185
10 From the Promised Land to Egypt: Immigration, Transnationalism, and Mission among Hispanic Evangelical Churches in North America Daniel A. Rodriguez 211
11 The Case for Missions in Ethiopian Diaspora Churches of America Mehari Korcho 233 l Part 4 Church on Mission in Practical Perspective
12 Apatheism: Engaging the Western Pantheon of Spiritual Indifference K. Robert Beshears 267
13 Pre-Field Missionary Assessment in the Context of the Local Church Nathan Garth 277
14 A Missionary's Relationship to Sending Churches: Communal and Exchange Dimensions David R. Dunaetz 303
15 Educating Today's Pastors Toward an Apostolic Imagination J. D. Payne 325