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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.