Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk, The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006. This is a practical and insightful book on how to bring about a missional transformation in existing churches with a traditional mindset. Roxburgh is a church consultant and Romanuk an organizational psychologist.

Christopher J.H. Wright, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative. IVP Academic, 2006, (581 pp). Whereas this website seeks to reconnect church and mission, Wright’s monumental study provides a broader theological foundation, arguing for the Bible to be read as a mission text. Here is what two of my colleagues at Fuller have to say about the book.

John Goldingay: “This marvelous book is all I hoped and expected and more… We are so fortunate to have the mature fruit of a lifetime’s reflections on the missional nature of the Bible by this outstanding teacher, scholar and missionary theologian. It threatens to revolutionize understanding of the Scripture by its demonstrate that they are, through and through, a missionary document.”

Charles Van Engen: “This excellent book encourages Bible scholars, pastors, missionaries and informed Christians to read the Bible with new eyes, the eyes of God’s missional intention for the world that God love. The author joins others…in demonstrating that only a missionary of the Bible does full justice to God’s self-revelation described therein.”

The author is director of international ministries for the Langham Partnership International (known in the United States as John Stott Ministries). Formerly he taught Old Testament and served as principal of All Nations College in Ware, England.