Preaching to the Nations: The Origins of Mission in the Early Church

Preaching to the Nations is a stimulating look at the origins of the concept of mission in the church from both a Christian and Jewish tradition. The author argues that the concept of mission was not a strongly perceived imperative in either the Hebrew Bible or the sayings of Jesus, and that it was only through the struggles of Paul and some of the other early Christian leaders that mission came to be percieved as important. The book finds that God's universal mission was established in a small and human way, offering encouragement for the church today, in God's ability to bring great things out of small beginnnings.