This book is designed to help all people understand the broad scope of God’s mission. Michael Goheen and Jim Mullins explain that everyone can live intentionally into God’s mission by understanding its many facets and focusing on a particular calling. Just like different instruments of a symphony harmonize together, each aspect of human participation in mission—evangelism, justice initiatives, poverty alleviation, faithful work in the marketplace, art—can help people play their part in God’s work in the world. Combining expertise from a mission scholar and a working pastor, the book includes practical examples and tools to help readers imagine their part in God’s mission.

To many people, the Bible and the Christian faith can seem out-of-touch with the modern society and contemporary worldviews. How exactly does the drama of the biblical story connect with our story today and the way we view the world around us? Michael Goheen and his collaborators respond to these critical questions and more through this substantial and illuminating collection. Always accessible and biblically grounded, these texts elaborate on the different facets of what it means to be a missional church in the world today. Never settling for mere theory, the authors bring to light the concrete ways that all Christians (not just church leaders) are called to participate in this mission and how we can engage the postmodern culture around us.