Sojourner #055: Prioritizing Missions In The Church
“And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:11–12, ESV) In a church landscape saturated with programs, strategies, and parachurch organizations, Aaron Menikoff and Harshit Singh call us back to something refreshingly ordinary and profoundly biblical: the local church. In Prioritizing Missions in the Church , they offer not a new model for missions, but a return to the one Christ gave. This volume, part of the 9Marks Church-Centered Missions series, is an unapologetic affirmation that missions is the responsibility of the local church - not Christian celebrities, not mission boards alone, not freelancers or non-profits, but ordinary churches filled with ordinary Christians under the authority of King Jesus. The authors write from two very different corners of the world: Menikoff serves as senior pastor of Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georg...
