Christianity Today Book Award The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award of Merit Winner (Missions/Global Affairs) 2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year ("Also Recommended," Global Outreach) The world has changed.
Discover how the Western church can contribute to a new era of mission marked by mutuality, reciprocity and humility..
In this critical age, the Global body of Christ needs one another more than ever.
Using their human and material resources with wise and strategic stewardship, North Americans can join forces with the Majority World in new, interdependent ways to answer God\'s call to Global involvement.
Borthwick offers concrete advice for how Western Christians can be involved without being paternalistic or creating dependency.
He provides a current analysis of the state of the world and how Majority World leaders perceive North American Christians\' place.
Is there an ongoing Role for the North American church in Global mission? Missions specialist Paul Borthwick brings an urgent report on how the Western church can best continue in Global mission.
Others simply feel that resources should be focused on the home front.
Some say that Global outreach is best left to indigenous leaders.
Some are wary that American mission efforts may perpetuate an imperialistic colonialism.
Given these changes, some think the day of the Western missionary is over.
Countries that were once destinations for Western missionaries are now sending their own missionaries to North America.
There are now more Christians in China than in all of Europe, more Pentecostals in Brazil than in the United States, and more Anglicans in Kenya than in Great Britain, Canada and the United States combined.
By the dawn of the twenty-first century, Christianity had become a truly Global faith, with Christians in Asia, Africa and Latin America outpacing those in the rest of the world.
A century ago, Christianity was still primarily centered in North America and Europe.
Christianity Today Book Award The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award of Merit Winner (Missions/Global Affairs) 2014 Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year ("Also Recommended," Global Outreach) The world has changed
