We provide a growing list of missional resources to facilitate reflections on ministry through  a missional perspective.  If you come across other helpful resources, not listed here, please contact us and we will review them for posting. 

The best way to engage life is as a life-long learner.  As we are open to engage in dialogue with others we will continue to broaden our perspectives, discover new questions to ask, and find new friends who help us open our eyes and ears to see and hear what God is up to in this world.  Not all our engagements can be face to face, so here are some conversation partners through print and electronic sources. 

Bibliography

Anderson, Gerald H., ed. The Theology of the Christian

  Mission. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company,

  1961.

Anderson, Ray S. The Soul of Ministry: Forming

  Leaders for God’s People. Louisville: Westminster

  John Knox Press, 1997.

__________. The Shape of Practical Theology:

  Empowering Ministry with Theological Praxis.

  Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001.

Barrett, Lois, Y. ed. Treasure in Clay Jars: Patterns in 

  Missional Faithfulness. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003

Bosch, David J. Transforming Mission: Paradigm

  Shifts in Theology of Mission. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis

  Books, 1991.

Camp, Lee. C. Mere Discipleship: Radical Christianity

  in a Rebellious World. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press,

  2003.

Clapp, Rodney. A Peculiar People: The Church as 

  Culture in a Post-Christian Society. Downers Grove: 

  InterVarsity Press, 1995.

Dietterich, Inagrace T. Cultivating Missional

  Communities. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock Publishers,

  2006.

Gibbs, Eddie. ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How

  We Do Ministry. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity  

  Press, 2000.       

__________ and Ryan K. Bolger. Emerging Churches:

  Creating Christian Community in Postmodern

  Cultures. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005.

Glasser, Arthur F. Announcing the Kingdom: The Story

  of God’s Mission in the Bible. Grand Rapids: Baker

  Academic, 2003.

Guder, Darrell L., ed. Missional Church: A Vision for

  the Sending of the Church in North America. Grand

  Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Hunsberger, George R. and Craig Van Gelder, eds. The

  Church Between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging

  Mission in North America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,

  1996.

Kuhl, Roland G.  “The Reign of God: Implications

  for Christian Education.” Christian Education

  Journal ns 1, no 2  (Fall 1997), 73-88.

__________.  Educating Christianly: The Reign of

  God as a Paradigm for Christian Education. Ann

  Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.

  1998, 2000.

Newbigin, Lesslie. The Gospel in a Pluralist Society.

  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.

Peterson, Eugene H. Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral

  Work.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.

__________. Working the Angles: The Shape of

  Pastoral Integrity. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.

__________. The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to

  the Art of Spiritual Direction. Dallas: Word

  Publishing, 1989

__________. Under the Unpredictable Plant: An

  Exploration in Vocational Holiness. Grand Rapids:

  Eerdmans, 1992.

__________. Leap Over a Wall: Earthy Spirituality

  for Everyday Christians. San Francisco:

  HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.

Roxburgh, Alan.  Crossing the Bridge: Church

  Leadership in a Time of Change. Percept Group,

  2000.

__________. The Sky is Falling: Leaders Lost in

  Transition. Eagle, ID: ACI Publishing, 2005.

__________ and Fred Romanuk. The Missional

  Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a  

  Changing World. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

Shenk, David W. and Ervin R. Stutzman. Creating

  Communities of the Kingdom: New Testament Models

  of Church Planting. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1988.

Van Gelder, Craig. The Essence of the Church: A

  Community Created by the Spirit. Grand Rapids:  

  Baker Books, 2000.

Vicedom, Georg F. The Mission of God: An

  Introduction to a Theology of Mission. St. Louis:

  Concordia Publishing House, 1965.

Wheatley, Margaret J. Leadership and the New

  Science. 2^nd ed. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler

  Publishers, 1999.                    

Articles, Papers, Addresses 

BY ROLAND G. KUHL:

What is Pastoral Leadership? A Review of the Relevant Literature on Approaches and Understandings of Pastoral Leadership at the Beginning of the 21st Century

FROM THE WEB:

Allelon Articles 

Todd Hiestand - The Gospel and the God-Forsaken (insights on being missional in suburbia)

Chris Smith - 10 Ways to be the People of God in Suburbia

Web Links

These sites are worth checking out:

Allelon - A Movement of Missional Leaders: 

Allelon is an organization bringing together a series of major projects for engaging mission in western culture.

Gospel and Our Culture Network (GOCN):

A network of Christian leaders from a wide array of churches and organizations, who are working together on the frontier of the missionary encounter of the gospel with North American assumptions, perspectives, preferences and practices.  

The Ekklesia Project:

A network of Christians from across the Christian tradition who rejoice in a peculiar kind of friendship rooted in a common love of God and the Church. They are convinced that to call ourselves ‘Christian’ means that following Jesus Christ must shape all areas of life.  

(Other sites will be added periodically)