Customer Reviews

Changing Face of World Missions, The: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends (Encountering Mission)

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This applies to the Kindle format only:

I bought this book for a class on missions. The content it good but some of the formatting is out of whack. It isn't consistently bad throughout the book. The case studies seem to be the worst. Here is an excerpt from one of the case studies.

"How could an Amer can comp y this n workers? Wasn't America supposed to be a Chistian nation? Weren't the owners of this business Christians themselves? How could they simply dump dozens of people--people with families--so i pu su t of greater profit? Wasn't America full of Christians? Couldn't they tell these companies how badly it hurts when they pursue free-market policies ? Weren't there any rules against creating jobs in other countries, raising people's hopes, and then dashing them h Maybe he ndian Labor Board would have something to say to the American company!"

If you're a fan of mad libs, go with the kindle format.

5 stars for the book, 3 for the formatting

Good book. It goes into different trends and contemporary issues when it comes to missions. Some of the subjects covered are globalization, postmodernism, contextualization, majority world christianity, etc...It is written by evangelical missiologists from the west. This is an awesome book. Get it.

If you think you're fairly well informed re: church and mission issues, think again. The authors of this book cover the mega issues of our time and the challenges we face as Christians in addressing them. I'll read this book again before I'm ready to talk about it, there's so much here.