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What Is the Mission of the Church?

Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission

Publication

Notes: DeYoung and Gilbert against a broad definition of mission, published the same year Corbett and Fikkert's When Helping Hurts -- also held here -- was being read in the opposite direction. No page count is given in the Library of Congress record.

1. A Most Common Word in Need of a More Careful Definition
2. What in the World Does Jesus Send Us into the World to Do?
3. Grasping the Whole Story: Seeing the Biblical Narrative from the Top of Golgotha
4. Are We Missing the Whole Gospel? Understanding the Good News
5. Kings and Kingdoms: Understanding God's Redemptive Rule
6. Making Sense of Social Justice: Exposition
7. Making Sense of Social Justice: Application
8. Seeking Shalom: Understanding the New Heavens and the New Earth
9. Zealous for Good Works: Why and How We Do Good, Both as Individuals and as Churches
10. The Great Commission Mission: What It Means and Why It Matters
Epilogue: So You're Thinking of Starting a New Kind of Church? Advice for the Young, Motivated, and Missional