Table of contents

1. Books
   1. Priority of Missions
   2. Cultural Acquisition and Cross-Cultural Communication
   3. Evangelism
   4. Church Planting & Replanting
   5. Disciple-making
   6. Diaspora Missions
   7. Missionary Biography
2. Articles
   1. Creating a Sending Culture in Your Church
   2. The Missionary Task
   3. Evangelism
   4. Discipleship
   5. Cross-cultural Missions

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Books

Priority of Missions

• Ashford, Riley. Gospel of Our King. Baker Academic, 2019.
• DeYoung, Kevin, and Greg Gilbert. What Is the Mission of the Church?: Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission. Crossway, 2011.
• Greear, J. D. Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches That Send. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2015.
• Hesselgrave, David J. Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions in Christian Missions Today. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2005.
• Hildreth, Scott. Together on God’s Mission. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2018.
• Piper, John. Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions. Baker Academic, 2010.
• Stott, John. Christian Mission in the Modern World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2015.

Cultural Acquisition and Cross-Cultural Communication

• Elmer, Duane. Cross-Cultural Conflict: Building Relationships for Effective Ministry. IVP Academic, 1993.
• ———. Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting In Around the World. IVP Academic, 2002.
• ———. Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility. IVP Books, 2006.
• Lanier, Sarah A. Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot - And Cold - Climate Cultures. Mc Dougal Publishing Company, 2000.
• McCrary, Larry. First 30 Daze. Louisville: Upstream, 2016.

Evangelism

• Green, Michael. Evangelism in the Early Church. Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans, 2004.
• Newman, Randy, and Lee Strobel. Questioning Evangelism: Engaging People’s Hearts the Way Jesus Did. Kregel Publications, 2017.
• Packer, J. I., and Mark Dever. Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God. IVP Books, 2012.

Church Planting & Replanting

• Clifton, Clint J., and Lon Solomon. Church Planting Thresholds: A Gospel-Centered Guide, n.d.
• Keller, Timothy. Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City. Zondervan, 2012.
• McKinley, Mike. Church Planting Is for Wimps (Redesign): How God Uses Messed-Up People to Plant Ordinary Churches That Do Extraordinary Things (9Marks). Redesign edition. Crossway, 2017.

Disciple-making

• Coleman, Robert E., and Billy Graham. The Master Plan of Evangelism. Revell, 2010.

Diaspora Missions

• Fries, Micah, and Keith Whitfield, eds. Islam and North America: Loving Our Muslim Neighbors. B&H Academic, 2018.
• Payne, J. D. Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission. Downers Grove, Ill: IVP Books, 2012.

Missionary Biography

• Akin, Daniel L., and David Platt. Ten Who Changed the World. B&H Books, 2012.
• Anderson, Courtney. To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson. Anniversary Edition. Judson Pr, 1987.
• Elliot, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor. Revised, Updated edition. Tyndale Momentum, 2002.
• Piper, John. Filling up the Afflictions of Christ: The Cost of Bringing the Gospel to the Nations in the Lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John Paton ( Edition) (Volume 5). Reprint edition. Crossway, 2014.

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Articles

Creating a Sending Culture in Your Church

• Less Talk, More Action: Moving Past the Rhetoric of Multiplication by Keelan Cook
• Developing a Standard for Missionary Sending: What does a Cross-cultural Missionary Look Like? by Nathan Sloan
• Three Principles for Developing a Sending Culture in Your Church by William Whaley

The Missionary Task

• The Missionary Task: Entering with Exit in Mind by D. Ray Davis
• The Missionary Task: Effective Gospel Proclamation by D. Ray Davis
• The Missionary Task: Making Disciples Who Make Disciples by D. Ray Davis
• The Missionary Task: Forming a Healthy Church by D. Ray Davis
• The Missionary Task: Training Faithful Leaders by D. Ray Davis
• The Missionary Task: Working Yourself out of a Job by D. Ray Davis

Evangelism

• Evangelism? That’s Just Not My Gift by D. Scott Hildreth
• How to Share the Gospel: A Quick Word on Narratives and Themes by Keelan Cook
• Evangelism is Sharing an Experience, Not Closing a Deal by D. Scott Hildreth
• A Warning Concerning Religious Categories by Keelan Cook
• How to Ask Someone About Their Religion (And Actually Discover What They Really Believe) by Keelan Cook

Discipleship

• Is Our Understanding of Discipleship Anemic? by Keelan Cook
• Discipleship is Being on Mission and Taking Others With You by Keelan Cook
• Two Lost Aspects of Discipleship by Keelan Cook
• The Discipleship Spiral: Doing to learn, and learning to do. by Keelan Cook
• How Do You Measure Discipleship? by Keelan Cook

Cross-cultural Missions

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