Reading List

Anderson, Paul N. “The Having-Sent-Me Father: Aspects of Agency, Encounter, and Irony in the Johannine Father-Son Relationship.”
Semeia 85, no. 1 (1999): 33-57.

Banks, Robert and Julia Bank. The Church Comes Home: Regrouping the People of God for Community and Mission.
Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1997.

Barrett, Lois Y. Storm Front: The Good News of God.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

Barrett, Lois Y. Treasures in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Bergquist, Linda and Allan Karr. Church Turned Inside Out.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.

Blauw, Johannes. The Missionary Nature of the Church: A Survey of the Biblical Theology of Mission.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.

Bliese, Richard. “The Mission Matrix: Mapping Out the Complexities of a Missional Ecclesiology.”
Word & World 26, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 237-248.

Boren, Scott. Missional Small Groups.
Baker Books, 2010.

Bosch, David J. “Evangelism: Theological Currents & Cross-currents Today,”
International Bulletin of Missionary Research 11, no. 3 (July 1987): 99.

Bosch, David J. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1991.

Bosch, David J. Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture.
Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1995.

Brafman, Ori and Rod A. Beckstrom. The Starfish and the Spider.
Portfolio Trade, 2008.

Breen, Mike and Alex Absalom. Launching Missional Communities: A Field Guide.
3DM, 2010.

Chester, Tim and Steve Timmis. Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community.
Crossway Books, 2008.

Christensen, Derek. “Marketplace and Missional Church.”
Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice 13, no. 1 (February 2005): 13-18.

Cole, Neil. Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Cole, Neil. Church 3.0: Upgrades For the Future of the Church.
San Francisco: Jossey-Base, 2010.

Cole, Neil. Organic Leadership.
Baker Books, 2010.

Dubose, Francis. God Who Sends: A Fresh Quest for Biblical Mission.
Nashville: Broadman, 1983.

Engelsviken, Tormod. “Missio Dei: The Understanding and Misunderstanding of a Theological Concept in European Churches.”
International Review of Mission 92, no. 367 (October 2003): 481-497

Ferreira, Johan. Johannine Ecclesiology.
Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Fitch, David. The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, and Other Modern Maladies.
Baker Books, 2005.

Fjeld, Roger W. “A Set-Apart and a Sending-Out Community.”
Currents in Theology and Mission 16, no. 5 (Oct. 1989): 337-340.

Frost, Michael and Alan Hirsch. The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church.
Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2003.

Frost, Michael and Alan Hirsch. ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church.
Hendrickson Press, 2008.

Frost, Michael. Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture.
Hendrickson, 2006.

Frost, Michael. The Road to Missional.
Baker, 2011.

Glasser, Arthur F. and Charles Van Engen. Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.

Goheen, Michael W. “The Missional Church: Ecclesiological Discussion in the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America.”
Missiology 30, no. 4 (October 2002): 479-490.

Goheen, Michael W. “As the Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology.”
International Review of Mission 91, no. 362 (July 2002): 354.

Guder, Darrell L. Be My Witnesses: The Church’s Mission, Message, and Messengers.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.

Guder, Darrell L. “Incarnation and the Church’s Evangelistic Mission,”
International Review of Missions 83, no. 330 (July 1994): 417-28.

Guder, Darrell L. Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Guder, Darrell L. “Missional Theology for a Missionary Church.”
Journal for Preachers 22, no. 1 (1998): 3-11.

Guder, Darrell L. The Incarnation and the Church’s Witness.
Wipf & Stock, 2005.

Guder, Darrell L. The Continuing Conversion of the Church.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Guder, Darrell L. “Worthy Living: Work and Witness from the Perspective of Missional Church Theology.”
Word & World 25, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 424-432.

Halter, Hugh and Matt Smay. The Tangible Kingdom.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Halter, Hugh and Matt Smay. And: The Gathered and Scattered Church.
Zondervan, 2010.

Halter, Hugh. Sacrilege: Finding Life in the Unorthodox Ways of Jesus.
Baker, 2011.

Hauerwas, Stanley. After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas.
Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.

Hirsch, Alan. The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church.
Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006.

Hirsch, Alan. The Forgotten Ways Handbook.
Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2009.

Hirsch, Alan and Deb. Untamed.
Baker Books, 2010.

Hirsch, Alan and Lance Ford. Right Here, Right Now.
Baker Books, 2011.

Hirsch, Alan and Dave Ferguson. On The Verge.
Zondervan, 2011.

Hirsch, Alan and Michael Frost. The Faith of Leap.
Baker, 2011.

Homan, Daniel O.S.B. and Lonni Collins Pratt. Radical Hospitality: Benedict’s Way of Love.
Paraclete Press, 2005.

Hunsberger, George R. “Birthing Missional Faithfulness: Accents in a North American Movement.”
International Review of Mission 92, no. 365 (April 2003): 145-152.

Hunsberger, George, and Craig Van Gelder. The Church Between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging Mission in North America.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

Jensen, Paul L. Subversive Spirituality: Transforming Mission Through the Collapse of Space and Time.
Pickwick Publications, 2009.

Keifert, Patrick R. We Are Here Now: A New Missional Era.
Eagle, Idaho: Allelon, 2006.

Koenig, John. New Testament Hospitality: Partnership with Strangers as Promise and Mission.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

Kostenberger, Andreas J. “The Place of Mission in New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Determine the Significance of Mission within the Scope of the New Testament’s Message as a Whole.”
Missiology 27, no. 3 (July 1999): 347-362.

Kostenberger, Andreas J. and Peter T. O’Brian. Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission.
InterVarsity, 2001.

Kraybill, Donald B. Upside-Down Kingdom.
Scottdale, Penn.: Herald, 2003.

Larkin, William J. Jr. and Joel F. Williams. Mission in the New Testament: An Evangelical Approach.
Orbis, 1998.

Lee, Helen. The Missional Mom.
Moody Publishers, 2011.

Lutz, Stephen. College Ministry in a Post-Christian Culture.
The House Studio, 2001.

Matthey, Jacques. “God’s Mission Today: Summary and Conclusions.”
International Review of Mission 92, no. 367 (October 2003) 579-587.

Mancini, Will. Church Unique.
Jossey-Bass, 2008.

McNeal, Reggie. Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

McNeal, Reggie. Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.

Mercer, Calvin. “Jesus the Apostle: Sending & the Theology of John.”
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 35, no. 4 (Dec. 1992): 457-462.

Minatrea, Milfred. Shaped by God’s Heart: The Passion & Practices of Missional Churches.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Murray, Stuart. Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World.
Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004.

Myers, Joseph R. The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community and Small Groups.
Zondervan, 2003.

Myers, Joseph R. Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect.
Baker, 2007.

Newbigin, Lesslie. Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.

Newbigin, Lesslie. The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.

Newbigin, Lesslie. The Open Secret: Introduction to a Theology of Mission.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

Newbigin, Lesslie. A Walk Through the Bible.
Barefoot Ministries, 2011.

Norman, Stanton R. ed. The Mission of Today’s Church.
Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007.

Nussbaum, Stan. A Reader’s Guide to Transforming Mission.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2005.

Oldenburg, Ray. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of the Community.
Marlowe & Company, 1999.

Peatross, Fred. Missio Dei – in the Crisis of Christianity.
Cold Tree Press, 2007.

Peterson, Jim and Mike Shamy. The Insider: Bringing the Kingdom of God Into Your Everyday World.
NavPress, 2003.

Pohl, Christine D. Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Randall, Ian M. “Mission in post-Christendom: Anabaptist and Free Church Perspectives.”
Evangelical Quarterly 79, no. 3 (July 2007): 227-240.

Riem, Roland. “Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique.”
Ecclesiology 3, no. 1 (September 2006): 125-139.

Roxburgh, Alan J. The Sky is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition.
Eagle, Idaho: ACI Publishing, 2005.

Roxburgh, Alan J. Missional Map-Making.
Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Roxburgh, Alan. Misisonal: Joining God in the Neighborhood.
Baker, 2011.

Roxburgh, Alan and Scott Boren. Introducing the Missional Church.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2009.

Roxburgh, Alan J. & Fred Romanuk. The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

Rusaw, Rick and Eric Swanson. The Externally Focused Church.
Loveland, CO: Group, 2004.

Samson, Will and Lisa Samson. Justice in the Burbs: Becoming the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live.
Baker, 2007

Stackhouse, John G. ed. Evangelical Ecclesiology.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.

Stetzer, Ed. Planting Missional Churches.
Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006.

Stetzer, Ed and David Putman. Breaking the Missional Code.
Broadman & Holman, 2006.

Sutherland, Martin. “The Kingdom Made Visible: A Missional Theology of Church.”
Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice 13, no. 1 (February 2005): 2-7.

Swanson, Eric and Rick Rusaw. The Externally Focused Quest.
Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Swanson, Eric and Sam Williams. To Transform a City: Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole City.
Zondervan, 2010.

Tan, Seng-Kong. “A Trinitarian Ontology of Missions.”
International Review of Mission 93, no. 369 (April 2004): 279-296

Turnipseed, Lawrence R. “Turning to God: Missional Responses in the Changing U.S. Context.”
International Review of Mission 87, no. 347 (October 1998): 525-534.

Ulrich, Daniel W. “The Missional Audience of the Gospel of Matthew.”
Catholic Biblical Quarterly 69, no. 1 (January 2007): 64-83.

Van Engen, Charles. God’s Missionary People: Rethinking the Purpose of the Local Church.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.

Van Engen, Charles. Mission on the Way: Issues in Mission Theology.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996.

Van Gelder, Craig. “Rethinking Denominations and Denominationalism in Light of a Missional Ecclesiology.”
Word & World 25, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 23-33.

Van Gelder, Craig. Confident Witness – Changing World: Rediscovering the Gospel in North America.
Eerdmans, 1999.

Van Gelder, Craig. The Ministry of the Missional Church: A Community Led by the Spirit.
Baker, 2007.

Van Gelder, Craig. The Missional Church in Context: Helping Congregations Develop Contextual Ministry.
Eerdmans, 2007.

Van Gelder, Craig. Missional Church in Perspective.
Baker, 2011.

White, Randy. Encounter God in the City.
InterVarsity Press, 2006

Winn, Albert C. A Sense of Mission: Guidance from the Gospel of John.
Philadelphia: Westminster, 1981.

Wright, Christopher J.H. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative.
Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006.

Wright, Christopher J.H. The Mission of God’s People.
Zondervan, 2010.