Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Bible in world evangelization / John R.W. Stott -- The living God is a missionary God / John R.W. Stott -- Everyone's question: what is God trying to do? / Stanley Ellisen -- Israel's missionary call / Walter Kaiser -- The story of his glory / Steven C. Hawthorne -- The biblical foundation for the worldwide missions mandate / Johannes Verkuyl -- The gospel of the kingdom / George Eldon Ladd -- What if the gospel is the good news of the kingdom? / Ron Sider -- The Master's plan / Robert Coleman -- Jesus and the Gentiles / H. Cornell Goerner -- A man for all peoples / Don Richardson -- The hidden message of "Acts" / Don Richardson -- The missionary task: an introduction / Arthur F. Glasser -- The Apostle Paul and the missionary task / Arthur F. Glasser -- The church in God's plan / Howard A. Snyder -- Prayer: rebelling against the status quo / David F. Wells -- Lost / Robertson McQuilkin -- The kingdom strikes back: ten epochs of redemptive history / Ralph D. Winter -- By way of inclusive retrospect / Kenneth Scott Latourette -- Four men, three eras, two transitions: modern missions / Ralph D. Winter -- The structure of God's redemptive mission / Ralph D. Winter -- The history of mission strategy / R. Pierce Beaver -- Europe's Moravians: a pioneer Missionary Church / Colin A. Grant -- Student power in world missions / David Howard -- The layman's missionary movement / J. Campbell White.

An enquiry into the obligation of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen / William Carey -- The call to service / J. Hudson Taylor -- China's spiritual need and claims / J. Hudson Taylor -- Tribes, tongues, and translators / Wm. Cameron Townsend -- The glory of the impossible / Samuel Zwemer -- The responsibility of the young people for the evangelization of the world / John R. Mott -- The bridges of God / Donald A. McGavran -- The new Macedonia: a revolutionary new era in mission begins / Ralph D. Winter -- The task remaining: all humanity in mission perspective / Ralph D. Winter -- The 2.4 billion: why are we still so unconcerned? / David A. Fraser -- World Mission Survey / Ralph D. Winter and David A. Fraser -- Missions in the modern milieu / J. Herbert Kane and Ralph R. Covell -- The hope of the coming world revival / Robert E. Coleman -- Understanding culture / Lloyd Kwast -- Christ and culture / David J. Hesselgrave -- Culture and cross-cultural differences / Paul G. Hiebert -- Social structure and church growth / Paul G. Hiebert.

The role of culture in communication / David J. Hesselgrave -- World view and contextualization / David J. Hesselgrave -- Pachacutec's mini reformation / Don Richardson -- Concept fulfillment / Don Richardson -- Finding the eye opener / Don Richardson -- What kind of encounters do we need in our Christian witness? / Charles H. Kraft -- Communication and social structure / Eugene A. Nida -- From every language / Barbara F. Grimes / The viable missionary: learner, trader, storyteller / Donald N. Larson -- Bonding and the missionary task / E. Thomas and Elizabeth S. Brewster -- Identification inn the missionary task / William D. Reyburn -- God's communicator in the 90's / Phil Parshall -- Do missionaries destroy cultures? / Don Richardson -- Cultural implications of an indigenous church / William A. Smalley -- The missionary's role in cultural change / Dale W. Kietzman and William A. Smalley -- The Willowbank Report / Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization -- Today's task, opportunity, and imperative / Donald A. McGavran -- Mission and the church / Edward R. Dayton and David A. Fraser -- By the year 2000: is God trying to tell us something? / Thomas Wang -- The work of evangelism / J. Herbert Kane -- Strategy / Edward R. Dayton and David A. Fraser -- The challenge before us / Luis Bush -- On the cutting edge of mission strategy / C. Peter Wagner -- A church for every people / Bradley Gill -- Quantifying the global distribution of evangelism and evangelization / David B. Barrett -- The spontaneous multiplication of churches / George Patterson -- Evangelization of whole families / Chua Wee Hian -- A church in every people: plain talk about a difficult subject / Donald A. McGavran.

The evangelization of animists / Alan R. Tippett -- Christian witness to Hindus / Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization -- Strategy for India / Ezra Sargunam -- Muslim evangelism / Michael Youssef -- South Asia: vegetables, fish, and messianic mosques / Shah Ali with J. Dudley Woodberry -- On turning Muslim stumbling blocks into stepping stones / Warren Chastain -- Keys to unlocking Muslim strongholds / Don Newman -- Future prospects for China ministry -- a dialogue / Jonathan Chao and Tony Lambert -- Eleven case studies of pioneer church planting: A pioneer team in Zambia, Africa; Establishing a church in an unreached Muslim area; A work of God among the Hakka of Taian; A flaming fire in the Maredumilli jungles; Reaching the Baranada people of Barunda; God wanted the Matigsalogs reached; Sarabia: a case study of an indigenous Arab church; An upper class people movement; The impact of missionary radio on church planting; Ann Croft and the Fulani; A two-stage approach to church planting in a Muslim context -- Evangelism: the leading partner / Samuel Moffett.

Evangelism as development / Edward R. Dayton -- Helping others help themselves: Christian community development / Robert C. Pickett and Steven C. Hawthorne -- The new age of missions: two-thirds world missions / Larry Keyes -- The changing balance in global missions / Larry D. Pate -- The messenger and mission structures / Warren Webster -- Tentmakers needed for world evangelization / Ruth E. Siemens -- You can so get there from here / MARC -- Serving as senders / Steven C. Hawthorne -- Preparation: pay the price! / Phil Elkins -- Lifestyle for servants of Christ (at home and overseas) / David H. Adeney -- Reconsecration to a wartime, not a peacetime lifestyle / Ralph D. Winter -- The non-essentials of life / Roberta Winter -- Obey the vision through prayer / David Bryant -- What it means to be a world Christian / David Bryant -- The missionary problem is a personal one / Andrew Murray.