Apostolic Function: In 21st Century Missions (J. Phillip Hogan World Missions) Paperback – Import, 1 June 2009

This is a source that I have gone back to often over the last decade as an anchor on frontier missiology. Johnson speaks well into the mission movement in having the unreached at the very center of its ethos. He doesn’t simply throw out the data and call for an apostolic function amongst those who are passionate about the unreached but calls the Church to placed those who have never heard and our Christ-centered effort to reach them in every single facet of our thinking in mission. Hold on to this one as you will want to come back to it as I have.

My headline is a bit tongue in cheek; I scarcely have a conversation about the nature of apostolic work without realizing how dramatically this work tuned my perspective. To be clear, this book is not speculative in nature, but aims to get into some nitty and gritty bridging of ideology and practice. Allen Johnson does it well.

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This book will totally wreck your perception of missions. Dr Johnson addresses the issue of the excessive tendency for missions to gravitate towards already established and effective fields at the expense of those parts of the world which remain unreached. He gives solid, biblically based insight into how and where we should focus our missionary efforts.

This book has challenged me to reevaluate what missions is and our part a believers. Great and challenging!