Tell all the World

Ed. Don Crisp and Jim Sayers. 176pp

‘World mission is someone else’s job! Leave it to the specialists, the agencies, and let’s concentrate on reaching our local community around our church.’ Sadly, that is often how Christians think about cross-cultural mission. But God has other plans for your church.

God’s plan as set out in Scripture is to put the local church at the heart of world mission. The biblical pattern is for local churches to send out missionaries, and for missionaries to be answerable to the local churches that send and support them. This was the conviction that changed Grace Baptist Mission into a church-based mission back in the 1960s and 70s.

This book, published to celebrate GBM’s 150th anniversary, has been put together to explore the biblical principles of mission, to apply them to a wide range of different cultures, and to show how church-based mission works out in practice.

In five chapters Sukesh Pabari explores the biblical basis of mission, and the means, tools aim and final goal of mission. Then seven different authors look at contexts where GBM works, including India, France, Post-Communist Europe, the Arab World, the Philippines, Latin America and Britain. The introduction explains how GBM came to practice church-based mission, and two final chapters describe the experience of sending and being sent.  Allow this book to ignite your passion to tell all the world of Jesus!