Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory

This comprehensive introduction helps students, pastors, and mission committees understand contemporary Christian mission historically, biblically, and theologically. Scott Sunquist, a respected scholar and teacher of world Christianity, recovers missiological thinking from the early church for the twenty-first century. He traces the mission of the church throughout history in order to address the global church and offers a constructive theology and practice for missionary work today.

Sunquist views spirituality as the foundation for all mission involvement, for mission practice springs from spiritual formation. He highlights the Holy Spirit in the work of mission and emphasizes its trinitarian nature. Sunquist explores mission from a primarily theological--rather than sociological--perspective, showing that the whole of Christian theology depends on and feeds into mission. Throughout the book, he presents Christian mission as our participation in the suffering and glory of Jesus Christ for the redemption of the nations.

• Prophetic Dialogue: Reflections on Christian Mission Today
• Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary
• Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-first Century (Encountering Mission)
• Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility
• Ministry in the Image of God: The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service
• Joyful Witness in the Muslim World: Sharing the Gospel in Everyday Encounters (Mission in Global Community)
• Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us
• Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing (Resources for Reconciliation)
• The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age
• Callings: Twenty Centuries of Christian Wisdom on Vocation