Foreword by Christopher J. H. Wright
Christians are not on a mission for God; his church is on his mission the mission of bringing the grace of Christ to sinners; the mission of bringing the whole world into obedience to Christ; and the mission of filling the world with his fame and glory.
Being on God's mission means following Jesus into the world, often an evil and frightening place. It is a place of idolatry, relativism, and secularism; it is a place where sexual abuse and child abuse occur; it is a place of pain and poverty and disease; it is a place of sexual dysfunction.
But it was to this place that Jesus came, and we do him honor as we follow him into the world bringing the good news of the total redeeming work of Christ.
Reformed Means Missional gathers Reformed leaders from all across the globe to demonstrate why and how the church must be on God's mission of bringing grace, holiness, compassion, and justice to a world of sin and suffering.
"In Reformed Means Missional, Dr. Sam Logan brings together both well-known authors and some hidden jewels of the church who labor, Jesus-like, in dark places, and serve the least and the lowest. Refreshingly, the theorists are also practitioners, while the practitioners think biblically and theologically about how God's mission shapes their work. The result? This wide-ranging volume, which is calculated to give mind, conscience, and, yes, emotions also, a serious, gospel workout."
Sinclair B. Ferguson, Redeemer Theological Seminary, Dallas, TX
"Building on 'Mission and Evangelism' in the WRF Statement of Faith, Reformed Means Missional brings theological substance to 'missional,' ensuring the term doesn't become a passing fad. A collection of the world's top Reformed thinkers have provided rich, compelling insights as to how the church in the twenty-first century must change the way it thinks and behaves if it is sent into the world to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ and promote the expansion of his Kingdom."
Jeffrey Jeremiah, MDiv, PhD, Stated Clerk, Evangelical Presbyterian Church
"Reformed Means Missional is a foundational and strategic call to all in the Reformed tradition to truly be his church, on his mission taking the whole gospel to the whole world. My friend, Sam Logan, understands this reality and articulates this call, both in terms of its theological groundings and its global implications, more persuasively than anyone I know. This book is required reading for any leader in the Reformed tradition who wants to be able to participate in twenty-first-century conversations with respect to the Reformational church and the core of Christ's calling."
S. Douglas Birdsall, PhD, President of the American Bible Society; former Executive Chair of the Lausanne Movement
"I have sometimes been annoyed when twenty-first-century leaders trumpet the mantra that their ministry is 'missional' as if no one else had ever discovered this concept before. However these essays, edited by Dr. Logan, focus on God's own mission for his church, immersed in a shape-shifting culture. Here are arrows that fly from the Spirit's own bow, still quivering from a bulls-eye impact!"
Michael A. Rogers, DMin, Senior Pastor, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, PA
"God is a missionary God. He reaches out to claim and bless his people and through them to bless others. When God called Abraham, he said to him: 'I will bless you . . . so that you will be a blessing . . . and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.' We are called by God to be missionaries, to be 'missional.' We cannot all reach all families of the earth; but we can reach some families near or far. This book will help you become intentional in your focus to be missional in some area where you can have influence. Where are you a blessing? Where are you missional?"
Robert C. (Ric) Cannada Jr., Chancellor Emeritus, Reformed Theological Seminary
"The heartbeat of Reformed theology (at its best) has always been its missional thrust. This extraordinary collection of essays explores from many angles how the gospel translates into God's people serving as his instruments of redemptive healing in a very broken world. It will help us follow Jesus more faithfully into his world so that his kingdom may come on earth as it is in heaven."
Leo R. Schuster III, Lead Pastor, East Side Congregation, Redeemer Presbyterian Church
"What is it after all to be 'missional'? Finally, this remarkable book shows us the way. We recognize our calling to build upon our Reformed heritage and to passionately look ahead. By God's grace we will fulfill our calling to bring both the gospel and long-needed change in our world, engaging issues too long neglected. Some will need to leave their denominations, others not, but we will labor together. This book unites us and stretches us at the same time a must-read to equip us for our Lord's vast and deep calling to us all."
D. Clair Davis, Professor and Chaplain, Redeemer Seminary, Dallas
"This is the book to read if you are serious about being part of God's mission of reaching the world through the proclamation of the gospel. Articles by experienced missionaries from four continents, focusing on twenty-four different aspects with one conclusion: Reformed means missional! A thorough, biblically sound, God-centered, focus. I pray that thousands, through reading it, would be equipped and encouraged to fulfill their calling in the coming of his kingdom!"
Henk Stoker, Professor in Apologetics and Ethics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
"Our Lord Jesus Christ said, 'I am the way, the truth and the life.' 'Reformed' usually connotes for us a commitment to the truth. But our sovereign Lord commissioned his followers to apply this truth to all of life. This new book presents challenges from some of the best Reformed thinkers who also are leaders in application of our faith to a great variety of needs in our world."
William S. Barker, Professor of Church History Emeritus, Westminster Theological Seminary; former Moderator of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church in America
"The European Reformers followed Jesus, the eternal Creator who lived in time-space history as a provincial carpenter-turned-rabbi, into their particular worlds half-a-millennium ago. In exemplary fashion, our reforming forefathers were both faithful to God's enduring covenant and relevant to their contemporary settings. This volume's heartening example of semper reformans, semper reformanda ('always reformed, always reforming') serves today's world Christian movement well toward following Jesus in faithful, relevant, and 'missional' ways."
J. Nelson Jennings, PhD, Executive Director, Overseas Ministries Study Center; Teaching Elder, Presbyterian Church in America
"The reach of Jesus is, we sing, 'far as the curse is found.' Jesus calls his Body into all spaces of earthly life as sick, ruined, and corrupt as they may be. Sam Logan has assembled a book that reminds those of us within the Reformed tradition that our attention to truth is always in some practical sense for the sake of the world not as an abstract proclamation, but to embody in real, though incomplete and imperfect, ways his future now. This collection of essays not only remind us of the missional aim of Christ, but helps us imagine the reach of Christ far as the curse is found."
Tuck Bartholomew, Pastor, City Church, Philadelphia, PA
"Searching for gold to enrich your convictions about being Reformed and missional? Here's a robust mine in which the most imminently qualified Reformed scholars and practitioners help you discover the reasons, ways, and specific venues our missional God is glorifying himself in this broken world. It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive, compassionate, compelling, theocentric, accessible, scholarly, biblically-grounded, and inspiring treatment of the complex dimensions of the missional landscape."
Mike Sharrett, Pastor, Redeemer Presbyterian Church, Lynchburg, VA
"At a time when some people are asking how to be Reformed and missional at the same time, this book comes to show that being Reformed is to be intrinsically missional. Written from different perspectives, with specific foci, the book is honest to its title, as it challenges us to see, in practice, just how true it is that being really Reformed and being really missional are one and the same!"
David Charles Gomes, Chancellor, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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