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Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader (5th Ed)

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Foreword by Michael Y. Oh

Introduction to the Fifth Edition

The Biblical Perspective

1. The Living God Is a Missionary God

John R. Stott

2. The Bible in World Evangelization

John R. Stott

3. The Nations at Heart

Katie Hoogerheide Frost

4. Mission and God's Earth

Christopher J. H. Wright

5. Blessing as Transformation

Sarita Gallagher Edwards and Steven C. Hawthorne

The Way of Blessing: Righteousness and Justice

Sarita Gallagher Edwards and Steven C. Hawthorne

The Story of Blessing: Prevailing Over Curse 

Richard Bauckham

6. The Story of His Glory

Steven C. Hawthorne

Why Jonah Disobeyed: God’s Unhindered Pursuit of His Purpose

Steven C. Hawthorne

7. Let the Nations Be Glad!

John Piper

8. Beyond Duty

Tim Dearborn

9. On Mission with God

Henry T. Blackaby and Avery T. Willis Jr.

10. Witness to the World

David J. Bosch

Two Forces

Jonathan Lewis

11. The Gospel of the Kingdom

George Eldon Ladd

D-Day before V-E Day

Ken Blue

12. Jesus: The Long-Awaited King

Steven C. Hawthorne

The Messiah Enthroned in Psalm 110

Steven C. Hawthorne

13. The Kingdom of God in the Life of the World

Lesslie Newbigin

14. Follow Me: How Jesus Sends

Steven C. Hawthorne

15. Jesus and the Gentiles

H. Cornell Goerner

A Violent Reaction to Mercy

Patrick Johnstone

16. God Builds God’s Kingdom

N. T. Wright

17. Not Thirsty, Still Hungry

Steve Hawthorne

18. Mandate on the Mountain

Steven C. Hawthorne

The Great Commission and the Great Commandment

Steven C. Hawthorne

I Am With You

Steven C. Hawthorne

19. Discipling All the Peoples

John Piper

20. Acts of Obedience

Steven C. Hawthorne

The Wall and the Canyon

Steven C. Hawthorne

21. The Turning Point: Setting the Gospel Free

M. R. Thomas

22. Become Like, Remain Like

Harley Talman

A New Creation

David Anthony

23. The Apostle Paul and the Missionary Task

Arthur F. Glasser

24. Prayer: Rebelling against the Status Quo

David Wells

25. His Glory Made Visible

Jim Montgomery

The Shopping Window of God 

Wolfgang Simson

26. Strategic Prayer

John D. Robb

27. Lost

Robertson McQuilkin

28. The Choice: Loving God or Loving the Darkness

Michael McClymond

29. The Uniqueness of Christ

Charles Van Engen

30. The Supremacy of Christ

Ajith Fernando

Ten Qualities of Jesus’s Words

Ajith Fernando

31. If I Perish

Brother Andrew

32. Suffering and Martyrdom: God’s Strategy in the World

Josef Tson

33. The Father Who Names the Nations

Steven C. Hawthorne

34. Apostolic Passion

Floyd McClung

The Historical Perspective

The Expansion of the World Christian Movement

35. As the Waters Cover the Sea: God’s Glory Expands to All Peoples

Bob Blincoe

36. Ways of Understanding History

Yvonne Wood Huneycutt

Philosophies of History

Yvonne Wood Huneycutt

37. Asian Christianity: Facing the Rising Sun

Scott W. Sunquist

38. How the Gospel Flourished in Africa

Sam Kebreab

39. How the New World of Latin America Became a Source of New Life

Guillermo Robert and Andrés Guzmán

40. The Long Look: Eras of Missions History

Ralph D. Winter

41. Christian Missions and the Western Guilt Complex: What Actually Happened in the

Encounter between Western Missionaries and Non-Christian Peoples?

Lamin Sanneh

42. The Social Impact of Christian Missions

Robert D. Woodberry

43. A History of Transformation

Paul Pierson

44. The History of Mission Strategy

R. Pierce Beaver

45. A Historical Survey of African Americans in World Missions

David Cornelius

46. Women in Mission

Marguerite Kraft and Meg Crossman

47. The Two Structures of God’s Redemptive Mission

Ralph D. Winter

48. Missionary Societies and the Fortunate Subversion of the Church

Andrew F. Walls

49. Student Power in World Missions

David M. Howard

Pioneers of the World Christian Movement

50. An Enquiry: The Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the

Conversion of the Heathens

William Carey

51. The Call to Service

J. Hudson Taylor

52. Tribes, Tongues, and Translators

William Cameron Townsend

53. The Bridges of God

Donald A. McGavran

54. The New Macedonia: A Revolutionary New Era in Mission Begins

Ralph D. Winter

55. Fruitful Fellow Workers: The Often-Untold Story of the Central Role of Local Leaders

Pam Arlund

56. Overlooked Pioneers History Almost Forgot

Linda P. Saunders

57. Women Leading the Way

Mary Ho

58. Europe’s Moravians: A Pioneer Missionary Church

Colin A. Grant

The Hundred Year Prayer Watch 

Jason Hubbard

The Status and Future of the World Christian Movement

59. The State of the Gospel

Jason Mandryk

60. No Longer Emerging

Beram Kumar

The Surging Non-Western Mission Force 

Bruce A. Koch

61. New Pioneers Leading the Way in the Final Era

Yvonne Wood Huneycutt

62. Majority World Sending

African Sending

Timothy Olonade

Korean Sending 

Chul Ho Han

Latin American Sending   

Carlos Scott

The Uniqueness of the Chinese Mission Movement 

Mary Ho and Rudolf Mak

Brazilian Sending

Alisson Gomes de Medeiros, Felipe Fulanetto, Ademir Menezes, and Estevão Muller

Indian Sending

K. Rajendran

63. From Western Christendom to Global Christianity

Todd Johnson and Sandra S. K. Lee

The Next Christendom 

Philip Jenkins

The Cultural Perspective

Understanding Culture

64. Understanding Culture

Lloyd E. Kwast

65. Culture, Worldview, and Contextualization

Charles H. Kraft

66. The Flaw of the Excluded Middle

Paul G. Hiebert

67. Is God Colorblind or Colorful?: The Gospel, Globalization, and Ethnicity

Miriam Adeney

Created to Create Culture 

Erich Sauer

Ten Ways to Build Multiethnic Bridges between Churches 

Miriam Adeney

68. Clean and Dirty: Cross-Cultural Misunderstandings in India

Paul G. Hiebert

Culture and Communication

69. Redemptive Analogy

Don Richardson

70. Making Disciples of Oral Learners

International Orality Network

71. Why Communicate the Gospel through Stories?

Tom A. Steffen

Transforming Worldviews through the Biblical Story

D. Bruce Graham

72. The Three-Dimensional Gospel: Ministry in Guilt, Shame, and Fear Cultures

Jayson Georges

73. Three Encounters in Christian Witness

Charles H. Kraft

74. Finding a Place and Serving Movements within Society

Paul G. Hiebert

Culture Shock: Starting Over 

Paul G. Hiebert

Closing the Gap 

Donald N. Larson

75. Communication and Social Structure

Eugene A. Nida

Identity in Culture

76. The Difference Bonding Makes

Elizabeth S. and E. Thomas Brewster

77. Identification in the Missionary Task

William D. Reyburn

78. Identity with Integrity: Apostolic Ministry in the Twenty-First Century

Rick Love

Google-Proof Transparency 

L. Mak

As Unknown, Yet Well-Known: Commending Ourselves as Servants 

Bob Blincoe

79. Missions and Money

Phil Parshall

Different Views concerning Relationships and Money 

Joseph Cumming

The Role of the Righteous Rich 

Jonathan J. Bonk

Gospel and Culture Change

80. Do Missionaries Destroy Cultures?

Don Richardson

81. Discovering the Holy Spirit’s Work in a Community

T. Wayne Dye and Sally Dye

As the Holy Spirit Works to Transform . . .

T. Wayne and Sally Dye

82. Cultural Implications of an Indigenous Church

William A. Smalley

The Fourth Self: Self-Theologizing 

Paul Hiebert

83. The Willowbank Report

The Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization

The Strategic Perspective

Strategy for World Evangelization

84. Accelerating Toward the Finish

R. W. Lewis

85. Global Gateways through Cities

Chris Clayman

86. Reaching All the Peoples

Bruce A. Koch

Mission Leaders Agree on Strategic Definitions

Bruce A. Koch

God’s Symphony of Effort To Bring About “A Church for Every People” 

Bruce A. Koch and Krikor Markarian

87. From Every Language

Barbara F. Grimes

Bible Translation: How Many Languages to Go?

Barbara F. Grimes

88. Missions in the Digital Era

D. G. Wynn

89. Crossing Boundaries, Penetrating Barriers

Tony Ford

Strategies for Transforming Communities

90. State of World Need

World Relief

91. Sustainable Community Development through the Local Church

Florence Muindi

92. Transformational Development: God at Work Changing People and Their Communities

Samuel J. Voorhies

Strategic, rather than Static, Holism 

Steve Hawthorne

93. What Is Poverty Anyway?

Bryant L. Myers

94. The Urban Poor: Who Are We?

Viv Grigg

95. Cities and Salt: Counter-Cultures for the Common Good

Tim Keller

Strategies for Church Movements

96. A Church in Every People: Plain Talk about a Difficult Subject

Donald A. McGavran

97. The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches

George Patterson

Three Levels of Biblical Authority

George Patterson

98. Church Is a Living Entity

Neil Cole

99. Church-Planting Movements

David Garrison

100. Evangelization of Whole Families

Wee Hian Chua

101. Dependency

Glenn Schwartz

102. The C1–C6 Spectrum: Types of Fellowships Muslims Join or Form When They Follow Jesus

John J. Travis

103. Insider Movements: Retaining Identity and Preserving Community

R. W. Lewis

Kingdom Circles

R. W. Lewis

Three Types of Christward Movements 

Rick Brown and Steven C. Hawthorne

Case Studies

104. A Pioneer Team in Zambia, Africa

Phillip Elkins

105. Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans

Brian Hogan

106. The Zaraban Breakthrough

Ken Harkin and Ted Moore

107. Planting Churches: Learning the Hard Way

T. and R. W. Lewis

108. Pigs, Ponds, and the Gospel

James W. Gustafson

109. A Movement of God among the Bhojpuri of North India

David L. Watson and Paul D. Watson

110. Ourselves as Servants: Latin American Workers in the Middle East

Andres and Angelica Guzman

111. Testimony of a Viable, Indigenous Church-Planting Movement

R. Rekedal Smith

112. A Movement of Christ Worshipers in India

Dean Hubbard

113. Christ Movements in the Hindu World

H. L. Richard

114. A Movement to Jesus among Muslims

Rick Brown

115. Christ Followers in East Africa

Aila Tasse and Dave Coles

116. The Awakening of the Persian Church

Gilbert Hovsepian and Krikor Markarian

World Christian Discipleship

117. Beyond Loving the World: Serving the Son for His Surpassing Glory

David Bryant

118. The Discipline of Simplicity

Pam Arlund

119. Life on Purpose

Claude Hickman, Steven C. Hawthorne, and Todd Ahrend

120. Is Every Christian a Missionary?

Denny Spitters and Matthew Ellison

Strategic Pursuit of God’s Plan

121. Join the World Christian Movement

Ralph D. Winter

122. The Awesome Potential for Mission Found in Local Churches

George Miley

Be a Church Whisperer 

Larry Walker

123. Welcome Home: The Invitation of Jesus to Hope, Freedom, and Family

Mouyassar Alshahf with Callie Ferguson and Juergen Kramer

124. Missio Dei or “Missio Me”? Using Short-Term Missions to

Contribute toward the Fulfillment of God’s Global Purpose

Roger Peterson

125. Restoring the Role of Business in Mission

Steve Rundle

Tentmakers: Integrating Work and Witness 

Ruth E. Siemens

126. The Lausanne Covenant

The Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization

Acknowledgments

Scripture Index

Subject Index

About the Editors

 

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Publication Date: May 12, 2026

Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader presents a rich collection of readings that explore the biblical, historical, cultural, and strategic dimensions of world evangelization.

Contributions from more than 150 mission scholars and practitioners portray the unfolding story of the global Christian movement: its roots, its challenges, and its remarkable potential for the future. Every article offers practical wisdom enabling Christians to labor together with bold, biblical hope to see Christ named and followed among all peoples of the earth.

The fifth edition brings fresh voices and dozens of new contributions, reflecting the rapidly expanding network of national study programs that use Perspectives to mobilize the global church to fulfill God’s mission. Each year more than 10,000 students—in nearly 40 countries and 9 languages—participate in Perspectives courses, discovering their role in God’s story and joining his global purpose.

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  • Pages: 158
  • Publisher: William Carey Publishing
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publish Year: 2026
  • ISBN: 9781645086888
  • Vendor: William Carey Publishing