Trends and Issues in Modern Missions: Trends that mold and shape our strategies of missions

Global missions is in the midst of multiple paradigm shifts that affect everything done in the name of missions. "Trends and Issues" presents the major shifts in the way the task of world evangelism is taking place in the 21st century.

Nine issues that need to be understood to stay current include:

History of methods and trends in missions

Holism: serving the whole person

Tentmaking, platform ministries and NGOs

Partnerships and dependency

Short-Term Missions

Contextualization

Church Planting Movements

Church-Based Leadership Training

Chronological Bible Storying/Teaching

So many mistakes done by well-intended missionaries have hampered the impact of the gospel needlessly. It is the hope of this book that new insights and better practices will allow the gospel to have an even greater influence in our changing world of the 21st century.