Includes bibliographical references and index.

A. Biblical perspective -- The Bible in World Evangelization / John R.W. Stott -- 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 -- Story of His glory / Steven C. Hawthorne -- The Biblical foundation for the worldwide missions mandate / Johannes Verkuyl -- Gospel of the kingdom / George Eldon Ladd -- What if the gospel is the Good News of the Kingdom / Ron Sider -- Master's plan / Robert Coleman -- Jesus and the Gentiles / H. Cornell Goerner -- A man for all peoples / Don Richardson -- Hidden message of Acts / Don Richardson -- Missionary task: an introduction / Arthur F. Glasser -- Apostle Paul and the missionary task / Arthur F. Glasser -- Church in God's plan / Howard A. Snyder -- Prayer: rebelling against the status quo / David F. Wells -- Lost / Robertson McQuilkin -- B. Historical perspective -- 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 -- Two structures of God's redemptive mission / Ralph D. Winter -- History of mission strategy / R. Pierce Beaver -- Europe's Moravians : a pioneer missionary church / Colin A. Grant -- Student power in World Missions / David Howard -- Laymens' missionary movement / J. Campbell White -- Enquiry into the obligation of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen / William Carey -- Call to service / J. Hudson Taylor -- China's spiritual need and claims / J. Hudson Taylor -- Tribes, tongues, and translators / Wm Cameron Townsend -- Glory of the impossible / Samuel Zwemer -- Responsibility of the young people for the evangelization of the world / John R. Mott -- Bridges of God / Donald A. McGavran -- New Macedonia : a revolutionary new era in mission begins / Ralph D. Winter -- 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 -- Hope of a coming world revival / Robert E. Coleman.

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 Taiwan; 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 -- Changing balance in Global Mission / Larry D. Pate -- 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 -- Non-essentials of life / Roberta Winter -- Obey the vision through prayer / David Bryant -- What it means to be a World Christian / David Bryant -- Missionary problem in a personal one / Andrew Murray.

C. Cultural perspective -- 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 -- Role of culture in communication / David J. Hesselgrave -- World view and contextualization / David J. Hesselgrave -- Pachacutec's mini Reformation / Don Richardson -- Concept fulfilment / 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 -- Viable Missionary: learner, trader, storyteller / Donald N. Larson -- Bonding and the Missionary task / E. Thomas and Elizabeth S. Brewster -- Identification in the missionary task / William D. Reyburn -- God's communicator in the 90's / Phil Parshall -- Do Missionaries destroy cultures / Don Richardson -- Cultural implications of a indigenous church / William A. Smalley -- Missionary's role in culture change / Dale W. Kietzman and William A. Smalley -- Willowbank report / Lausannne Committee for World Evangelization -- D. Strategic perspective -- 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 -- Work of evangelism / J. Herbert Kane -- Strategy / Edward R. Dayton and David A. Fraser -- Challenge before us / Luis Bush -- On the cutting edge of mission strategy / C. Peter Wanger -- 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 -- Evangelization of Animists / Alan R. Tippett -- Christian Witness to the 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 Chastian -- Keys to unlocking Muslim strongholds / Don Newman -- Future propects for China ministry -- A dialogue / Jonathan Chao and Tony Lambert.