Trends and Issues in Modern Missions: Trends that mold and shape our strategies of missions

Global missions is in the midst of multiple paradigm shifts that affect everything done in the name of missions. "Trends and Issues" presents the major shifts in the way the task of world evangelism is taking place in the 21st century.

Nine issues that need to be understood to stay current include:

History of methods and trends in missions
Holism: serving the whole person
Tentmaking, platform ministries and NGOs
Partnerships and dependency
Short-Term Missions
Contextualization
Church Planting Movements
Church-Based Leadership Training
Chronological Bible Storying/Teaching

So many mistakes done by well-intended missionaries have hampered the impact of the gospel needlessly. It is the hope of this book that new insights and better practices will allow the gospel to have an even greater influence in our changing world of the 21st century.