101 books on missions - list of missionary books

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101 Books on Missions - List of Missionary Books

Are you looking to challenge your life in Missions?We have compiled a list of a 101 amazing books on missions! You will �nd biographies that will fan your �ame of

passion, missiology books and more. If you need a little encouragement or even a hardcore challenge, you’ll �nd it on

this list.

In no particular order…

By: John Piper, David Mathis, David Platt and Ed Stetzer

1. Finish the Mission: Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged

By: John Piper

2. Let the Nations Be Glad: the Supremacy of God in Missions

By: Gailyn Van Rheenen

3. Missions: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Strategies

By: Peter Greer, Chris Horst, Anna Haggard

4. Mission Drift: The Unspoken Crisis Facing Leaders, Charities and Churches

By: A. Scott Moreau, Gary R. Corwin, Gary B. McGee

5. Introducing World Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Survey (Encountering Mission)

By: Christopher J. H. Wright

6. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative

By: David A. Livermore

7. Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence

By: Tim Dearborn

8. Short Term Missions Workbook: From Mission Tourists to Global Citizens

By: Basil Mathews

9. The Book of Missionary Heroes


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By: Zane Pratt, M. David Sills, Jeff K. Walters

10. Introduction to Global Missions

By: Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

11. Mission in the Old Testament: Israel as a Light to the Nations

By: Paul Sparks, Tim Soerens, Dwight J. Friesen

12. The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community

By: Christopher J. H. Wright

13. The Mission of God’s People: A Biblical Theology of the Church’s Mission

By: Ruth A. Tucker

14. From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions

By: Jason Mandryk

15. Operation World: The De�nitive Prayer Guide to Every Nation

By: M. David Sills

16. The Missionary Call: Find Your Place in God’s Plan for the World

By: Dana L. Robert

17. Christian Mission: How Christianity Became a World Religion

By: Philip Jenkins

18. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity

By: Duane Elmer

19. Cross-Cultural Connections: Stepping Out and Fitting in Around the World

By: Duane Elmer

20. Cross-Cultural Con�ict: Building Relationships for Effective Ministry

By: A. Scott Moreau

21. Contextualization in World Missions: Mapping and Assessing Evangelical Models





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By: David J. Hesselgrave

22. Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally

By: Richard Bauckham

23. Bible and Mission: Christian Mission in a Postmodern World

Ralph D. Winter (Editor), Steven C. Hawthorne (Editor)

24. Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader

By: Marvin Newell

25. A Martyr’s Grace: Stories of Those Who Gave All for Christ and His Cause

By: Steve Corbett, Brian Tikkert, John Perkins (Forward), David Platt (Forward)

26. When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself

By: Sarah A. Lanier

27. Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot – and Cold – Climate Cultures

By: Duane Elmer

28. Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility

By: Paul Borthwick

29. Western Christians in Global Mission: What’s the Role of the North American Church?

By: Dick Brogden (Compiler)

30. Live Dead Journal: 30 Days of Prayer for Unreached Peoples, 30 Days of Challenge

By: David Horner (Author), David Platt (Forward)

31. When Missions Shapes the Mission: You and Your Church Can Reach the World

By: Roland Allen

32. Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?

By: Nik Ripken

33. The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith Resurrected





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By: Nik Ripken

34. The Insanity of Obedience: Walking with Jesus in Tough Places

By: David Platt and Francis Chan

35. Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live

By: Tim Keesee

36. Dispatches from the Front: Stories of the Gospel Advance in the World’s Most Dif�cult Places

By: Kate McCord

37. In the Land of Blue Burquas

By: David Platt

38. Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream

By: John Piper

39. Risk is Right: Better to Lose Your Life than to Waste It

By: John Piper

40. Don’t Waste Your Life

By: Don Richardson

41. Peace Child: an Unforgettable Story of Primitive Jungle Treachery in the 20th Century

By: Bruce Olson

42. Bruchko: The Astounding True Story of a 19-Year-Old American, His Capture by the Motilone Indians and His

Adventures in Christianizing the Stone Age Tribe

By: Richard Stearns

43. The Hole in Our Gospel: What Does God Expect of Us? The Answer that Changed My Life and Might Just Change

the World

By: David Sills

44. Reaching and Teaching: A Call to Great Commission Obedience





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By: Jane Benge and George Benge

45. Jim Elliot

By: Sherwood G. Lingenfelter, Marvin K. Mayers

46. Ministering Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Personal Relationships

By: John Stott (1974)

47. Christian Mission in the Modern World

By: Dr. Timothy Tennent

48. Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the Twenty-�rst Century

By: William Fay and Linda Evans Shepherd

49. Share Jesus Without Fear

By: Craig Ott

50. Encountering Theology of Mission (Encountering Mission): Biblical Foundations, Historical Developments and

Contemporary Issues

By: Paul-Gordon Chandler, John Stott (Forward)

51. God’s Global Mosaic: What We Can Learn from Christians Around the World

By: Mary T. Lederleitner

52. Cross-Cultural Partnership: Navigating the Complexities of Money and Mission

By: David E. Maranz

53. African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa (Publications on Ethnology Vol. 37)

By: Paul Borthwick

54. Western Christians in Global Mission: What’s the Role of the North American Church?

By: James Plueddemann

55. Leading Across Cultures: Effective Ministry and Mission in the Global Church

By: David Hesselgrave

56. Paradigms in Con�ict: 10 Key Questions on Christian Missions Today





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By: Michael W. Goheen

57. Introducing Christian Mission Today: Scripture, History and Issues

By: Amy Carmichael, Hudson Taylor, John Paton

58. 7 Classic Missionary Biographies: Raymond Lull, David Brainerd, Henry Martin, William Carey, Hudson Taylor,

John Paton, Amy Carmichael

By: Scott W. Sunquist

59. Understanding Christian Missions: Participation in Suffering and Glory

By: Bilquis Sheikh

60. I Dare to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Women’s Encounter with God

By: Brother Andrew, John Sherrill and Elizabeth Sherrill

61. God’s Smuggler

By: Brother Yun

62. The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun

By: Don Richardson

63. Eternity in Their Hearts: Startling Evidence of Belief in the One True God in Hundreds of Cultures Throughout

the World

By: Elizabeth Elliot

64. Through Gates of Splendor

By: Paul Hiebert

65. Anthropological Insights for Missionaries

By: Joy Loewen

66. Woman to Woman: Sharing Jesus with a Muslim Friend

By: Christine Mallouhi

67. Miniskirts, Mothers, and Muslims: A Christian Woman in a Muslim land





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By: Roland Muller

68. Honor and Shame: Unlocking the Door

By: Jerry Trousdale

69. Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus

By: Edward Huskins

70. A Muslim’s Heart (Pilgrimage Growth Guide)

By: Nabeel Jabbour

71. The Crescent Through the Eyes of the Cross; Insights from an Arab Christian (The Navigators Reference Library)

By: James Paton

72. John G. Paton: Missionary to the New Hebrides

By: Elisabeth Elliot

73. A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

By: Bill Hybels & Mark Mittelberg

74. Becoming a Courageous Christian

By: Scott Morton

75. Funding Your Ministry

By: David L. Bosch

76. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (American Society of Missiology)

By: Paul S. Chung

77. Reclaiming Mission as Constructive Theology: Missional Church and World Christianity

By: Samuel Escobar

78. The New Global Mission: The Gospel from Everywhere to Everyone (Christian Doctrine in Global Perspective)

By: Martin Klauber (Editor), Scott M. Manetsch (Editor), D.A. Carson (Contributor), & 7 More

79. The Great Commission & Evangelism and the History of World Missions





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By: A. Scott Moreau

80. Contextualization in World Missions: Mapping and Assessing Evangelical Models

By: Tim Dearborn

81. Short Term Missions Workbook: from Mission Tourists to Global Citizens

By: Dustin Willis, Aaron Coe and David Platt

82. Life on Mission: Joining the Everyday Mission of God

By: Marilyn Laszlo, Franklin Graham (Forward), Luci Tumas (Contributor)

83. Mission Possible: The Wonderful Story of God and a Wycliffe Translator in the Jungles of Papua New Guinea

By: Patty Lane

84. A Beginner’s Guide to Crossing Cultures, Making Friends in a Multicultural World

By: Tom Doyle (Author), Greg Webster (Contributor)

85. Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World?

By: Ed Stetzer

86. Planting Missional Churches

By: Steve Hoke & Bill Taylor

87. Global Mission Handbook: A Guide for Cross cultural Service

By: Michael Pocock, Gailyn Van Rheenen, Douglas McConnell

88. The Changing Face of Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends (Encountering Mission)

By: Soong-Chan Rah

89. Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church

By: Miriam Adeney

90. Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity

By: Mike Barnett (Editor), Robin Martin (Editor)

91. Discovering the Mission of God: Best Missional Practices for the 21st Century





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By: J.D. Payne

92. Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church

By: James Nelson

93. Crossing Cultures with Ruth: Lessons on Thriving in Mission

By: J.I. Packer, Mark Dever (Forward)

94. Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God

By: John MacArthur (Author), Grace Community Church Staff (Contributor)

95. Evangelism: How to Share the Gospel Faithfully

By: Thomas Hale

96. On Being A Missionary

By: John McVay

97. Ask a Missionary: Time Tested Answers From Those Who’ve Been There Before

By: Nabeel Qureshi and Lee Strobel

98. Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

By: David Garrison

99. A Wind in the House of Islam: How God is Drawing Muslims Around the World to Faith in Jesus Christ

By: Greg Finke

100. Joining Jesus on His Mission: How to Be an Everyday Missionary

By: Steve Saint

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