The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out without Selling Out

by Bruce L. Shelley

Book Overview

If the unchurched in the United States ever formed their own country, it would be the world's eleventh most populous nation. Reformission is a call to reform a flawed view of missions--as something we only do in foreign lands--to focus on the urgent needs in our own neighborhoods, filled with diverse Americans who desperately need the Gospel of Jesus and life in his Church. It calls for a movement of missionaries who seek the lost across the street,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310515009
• ISBN13: 9780310515005
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Great way to meet the giants of Christian Faith

Shelley has selected brief writings from 52 spiritual leaders and theologians of Christianity's past. He starts with Paul, writer of New Testament letters, but then moves in chapter two to leaders only preachers and theologians know about -- but lay people ought to meet!Who's here? Polycarp (about AD 150), Origen, Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Luther, Calvin, John Wesley, to the more modern, Oswald Chambers, Bonhoeffer, Watchman Nee, C. S. Lewis and others. Don't worry if you don't know these folks. Each chapter has a brief introductory essay, then you get a sampling of that person's writings. By selecting 52 writers, this would be a great devotional book for a year. It is, after all, the type of book that is best savored slowly, digesting one chapter at a time -- not for consuming quickly in a day or two.