Search query: andy johnson missions

Product: Enemy Lines
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Product: Las Misiones: How the Local Church Goes Global (Spanish Edition)
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Every local church should be engaged with global missions, even if most individuals in the church aren't called to go overseas. But what does this engagement actually look like? How can local churches train, send, and support missionaries well? Unpacking principles from the Bible and applying them in the context of real life in a local church, this new book in the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series is filled with practical steps and advice for supporting missionaries, forming international partnerships, sending short-term teams, and engaging with the nations here at home. This book casts a vision for the local church as the engine of world missions―for the joy of all people and the glory of God.

Product: The Church's Mission | 9Marks Journal
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In the early 2000s, "the missional church" became quite popular. This 9Marks Journal seeks to understand certain "missional" emphases, and then compare them to what the New Testament teaches about the local church.

Product: Missions | 9Marks Journal: Adding Zeal to Wisdom
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Zeal without knowledge hurts missions; it can even lead to damnation (see Rom. 10:1-3). Yet too often churches assume the sincerity of their efforts makes up for any deficiencies in their methods. The sense of urgency especially leads toward hasty, unhealthy, and foolish missions work.

What’s needed are healthy churches, and a vision for the crucial role of churches in doing the work of missions. In this 9Marks Journal, we start by addressing some of the problems in missions today, particularly with regard to the role of churches.

Then we ask the question, what exactly should churches do to engage wisely in missions? We try to answer that question in the second half.

So many topics we could have addressed in the Journal, but hopefully it offers a useful starting point to the conversation for pastors. Start, perhaps, with Aubrey Sequeira. It offers a useful picture of what can go wrong. Mack Stiles then offers the counterpoint: what does healthy church engagement look like.

And pray that God would use this Journal to help churches more faithfully fulfill the Great Commission, particularly to the ends of the earth.