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Missions By The Book

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Across the church, there is a rift between theology and missions. Bad theology produces bad missions, and bad missions fuels bad theology.

We wrongly think that we must choose between making a global impact and thinking deeply about the things of God. But the relationship between theology and missions is symbiotic—one cannot exist without the other. They walk hand-in-hand.

 

 

 


Listen to a podcast interview on The Sword & The Trowel with the author here.

 

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Missions By The Book: How Theology and Missions Walk Together

by Chad Vegas and Alex Kocman
©2021 Founders Press
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN: 978-1-943539-29-1
Paperback

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Weight .6 lbs
Dimensions 9 × 6 × .5 in
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Endorsements

 Regardless of where you live or what culture you’re from, everyone is a theologian. Therefore, it is vital that theology informed by Scripture is not divorced from missions but is the fuel that drives all missionary gospel endeavors. In Missions by the Book, Alex Kocman and Chad Vegas weave together a thoroughly biblical argument for why all missionary efforts and practice must have a comprehensive theology at their core. Missionaries, students, and pastors alike will benefit from this clarion call to restore theology to its rightful place.

  • Dustin Benge | Associate Professor of Biblical Spirituality and Historical Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY.

 

Some books lay out the foundational biblical teachings that must guide our missionary labors. Some books bring the sharp edge of God’s Word to contemporary controversies in missions. Remarkably, this book does both! Highly recommended for missionaries, pastors, and all who care about fulfilling Christ’s Great Commission.

  • Dr. Joel R. Beeke | President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan 

 

 Missions by the Book may well become the standard text on God-honouring, Bible-shaped gospel mission to the thousands of unreached people groups scattered throughout the world. Kocman and Vegas challenge the methodology of many mission groups that downplays Scripture as regulating how we are to take the gospel of the God of grace to all the nations. Without denying the powerful, present ministry of the Holy Spirit, Missions by the Book seeks to take seriously the transgenerational wisdom of God’s Word in understanding how the church today is to seek to reach and win the lost in every age. The addition after each chapter of a series of questions makes the book an ideal resource for churches as well as individuals to study this most vital of gospel imperatives. I commend this work without reservation.”

  • Ian Hamilton | President, Westminster Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Newcastle, England

 

Missions and good theology began as good friends but have gone through a rocky period the last sixty or so years. All manner of lone-ranger missionaries, speed-based methodologies, and bad hermeneutics have found great traction in the present missions world. Vegas and Kocman have brought back a refreshingly clear and biblical understanding of our Triune God’s desire and plan for all nations. It is my fervent hope and prayer that it is embraced widely by pastors, Christian leaders, and those who will take the gospel of our Lord to the ends of the earth.

  • Brooks Buser | President, Radius International

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 – The Word of God as the Sufficient Authority for Missions

Chapter 2 – The Father’s Decree to Send the Son to All Nations

Chapter 3 – The Son’s Mission to Save All Nations

Chapter 4 – The Holy Spirit’s Mission as Witness to Christ in All Nations

Chapter 5 – The Church Christ Is Building in All Nations

Chapter 6 – The Apostles’ Commission to Proclaim Christ in All Nations

Chapter 7 – The Nations and the Church’s Commission

Chapter 8 – The Power of Ordinary Gospel Preaching

Chapter 9 – The Glorious Reward in Missions

Chapter 10 – The Missionary Commissioned to All the Nations

Conclusion

Appendix: The Apostolic Evangelistic Preaching Pattern

Bibliography

Scripture Index

Chad Vegas

Chad is the founding pastor of Sovereign Grace Church in Bakersfield, CA. After completing his MA at Talbot School of Theology, and serving as a pastor at RiverLakes Community Church, Chad was called to plant Sovereign Grace. He is also the founding board chairman of Radius International, an organization that trains people to plant churches among unreached language groups. He has been married to Teresa since 1994, and they have 2 children.

Alex Kocman

Alex Kocman is the Director of Communications and Engagement for ABWE and serves as an elder and as worship director at Faith Bible Fellowship Church of York, Pa. He serves as general editor for Message Magazine and co-hosts The Missions Podcast. After earning his M.A. in Communication and B.S. in Biblical Studies, he served as an online apologetics instructor with Liberty University and a youth pastor in Pennsylvania, where he now resides with his wife and four children. You can follow him on X at @ajkocman or by visiting alexkocman.com.