Gospel-Centered Musings

The following articles I had read and written some short thoughts down all came from Perspectives on the World Christian Movement : A Reader by Ralph D. Winter (4th Edition). Glasser, Arthur F. “The Apostle Paul and the Missionary Task” in Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, Fourth Edition, ed. Ralph D. Winter and Steven [...]

The books of Romans is a systematic theology that Paul’s writes with missional intent. The bookends of this letter form a missional inclusio that reveals this intent: Romans 1:5 – “through (Jesus Christ) whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all [...]

Bosch, David J. “Mission in Biblical Perspective” International Review of Mission, 74 (1985), 531-38. How was this article helpful? The article showed me just how important Dr. Blauw’s work truly was in the biblical theology of missions during the mid-1900’s. The books reviewed give a better understanding to both the positive and negatives to the [...]

The past few days I have posted several small book reviews of a few titles I have been reading for a class that I am taking next week September 21-25 with Dr. Brain DeVries. For the next few days I will post my VERY short thoughts on a number of different articles, selected chapters of [...]

Book Review: The Missionary Nature of the Church: A Survey of the Biblical Theology of Mission How was this helpful? I found The Missionary Nature of the Church helpful in that Blauw gives both a Biblical and Theological importance behind the goal in the Old Testament (p.15-54) and New Testament (p.65-103). It was most helpful [...]

Bavinck, Johan H. “The Foundation of Missions” in An Introduction to the Science of Missions, J. H. Bavinck, trans. David H. Freeman, 11-76. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1960. Bosch, David J. “Mission in Biblical Perspective” International Review of Mission, 74 (1985), 531-38. Bosch, David J. “Witness to the World” in Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, Fourth [...]

Allen, Roland. Missionary Methods: St. Paul’ s or Ours? Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 1962. Barrett, C. K. “The Gentile Mission as an Eschatological Phenomenon” in Eschatology and the New Testament, 65-75. Hendrickson, 1988. Bauckham, Richard. Bible and Mission: Christian Witness in a Postmodern World. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003. Bevans, Stephen B. and Roger P. [...]

Book Review: Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations How was this helpful? The most insightful thought in this book was that God, from day one, has planned for not only the Jews to come to the knowing and understanding of Him, but that since creation God has missioned that [...]

Book Review: The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative How was this helpful? Christopher Wright’s book on The Mission of God is helpful in that he gives the purpose in what God is doing today; but even more so, in what God has been doing throughout all of Redemptive History – revealing Himself [...]