Recommended Books 

Anderson, Paul N. “The Having-Sent-Me Father: Aspects of Agency, Encounter, and Irony in the Johannine Father-Son Relationship.”
Semeia 85, no. 1 (1999): 33-57.

Banks, Robert and Julia Bank. The Church Comes Home: Regrouping the People of God for Community and Mission.
Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1997.

Barber, Leroy. Everyday Missions: How Everyday People Can Change the World.
InterVarsity, 2012.

Barber, Leroy. Red, Brown, Yellow, Black, White - Who's More Precious In God's Sight?
Jericho Books, 2014.

Barrett, Lois Y. Storm Front: The Good News of God.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003.

Barrett, Lois Y. Treasures in Clay Jars: Patterns in Missional Faithfulness.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.

Bergquist, Linda and Allan Karr. Church Turned Inside Out.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.

Blauw, Johannes. The Missionary Nature of the Church: A Survey of the Biblical Theology of Mission.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.

Bliese, Richard. “The Mission Matrix: Mapping Out the Complexities of a Missional Ecclesiology.”
Word & World 26, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 237-248.

Boren, Scott. Missional Small Groups.
Baker Books, 2010.

Bosch, David J. “Evangelism: Theological Currents & Cross-currents Today,”
International Bulletin of Missionary Research 11, no. 3 (July 1987): 99.

Bosch, David J. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1991.

Bosch, David J. Believing in the Future: Toward a Missiology of Western Culture.
Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1995.

Brafman, Ori and Rod A. Beckstrom. The Starfish and the Spider.
Portfolio Trade, 2008.

Briggs, Alan. Staying is the New Going.
NavPress, 2015.

Brisco, Brad and Lance Ford. Missional Essentials (small group curriculum)
The House Studio, 2012.

Breen, Mike and Alex Absalom. Launching Missional Communities: A Field Guide.
3DM, 2010.

Castellanos, Noel. Where the Cross Meets the Street.
InterVarsity Press, 2015.

Chester, Tim and Steve Timmis. Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around Gospel and Community.
Crossway Books, 2008.

Christensen, Derek. “Marketplace and Missional Church.”
Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice 13, no. 1 (February 2005): 13-18.

Cleveland, Christena. Disunity in Christ.
InterVarsity Press, 2013.

Cole, Neil. Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Cole, Neil. Church 3.0: Upgrades For the Future of the Church.
San Francisco: Jossey-Base, 2010.

Cole, Neil. Organic Leadership.
Baker Books, 2010.

Dubose, Francis. God Who Sends: A Fresh Quest for Biblical Mission1983.

Engelsviken, Tormod. “Missio Dei: The Understanding and Misunderstanding of a Theological Concept in European Churches.”
International Review of Mission 92, no. 367 (October 2003): 481-497

Escobar, Kathy. Down We Go: Living Into The Wild Ways of Jesus.
Civitas Press, 2011.

Ferreira, Johan. Johannine Ecclesiology. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.

Fitch, David. The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, and Other Modern Maladies.
Baker Books, 2005.

Fitch, David and Geoff Holsclaw. Prodigal Christianity.
Jossey-Bass, 2013.

Fjeld, Roger W. “A Set-Apart and a Sending-Out Community.”
Currents in Theology and Mission 16, no. 5 (Oct. 1989): 337-340.

Ford, Lance. UnLeader.
Beacon Hill, 2012.

Ford, Lance and Brad Brisco. The Missional Quest.
InterVarsity Press, 2014.

Ford, Lance and Brad Brisco. Next Door As It Is In Heaven.
NavPress, 2016.

Frost, Michael and Alan Hirsch. The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church.
Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2003.

Frost, Michael and Alan Hirsch. ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church.
Hendrickson Press, 2008.

Frost, Michael. Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture.
Hendrickson, 2006.

Frost, Michael. The Road to Missional.
Baker, 2011.

Frost, Michael. Surprise the World.
NavPress, 2016.

Fuder, John. Neighborhood Mapping: How to Make Your Church Invaluable to the Community.
Moody Publishing, 2014.

Glasser, Arthur F. and Charles Van Engen. Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.

Goheen, Michael W. “The Missional Church: Ecclesiological Discussion in the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America.”
Missiology 30, no. 4 (October 2002): 479-490.

Goheen, Michael W. “As the Father Has Sent Me, I Am Sending You: Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology.”
International Review of Mission 91, no. 362 (July 2002): 354.

Guder, Darrell L. Be My Witnesses: The Church’s Mission, Message, and Messengers.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.

Guder, Darrell L.
International Review of Missions 83, no. 330 (July 1994): 417-28.“Incarnation and the Church’s Evangelistic Mission,”

Guder, Darrell L. Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Guder, Darrell L. “Missional Theology for a Missionary Church.”
Journal for Preachers 22, no. 1 (1998): 3-11.

Guder, Darrell L. The Incarnation and the Church’s Witness. 2005.

Guder, Darrell L. The Continuing Conversion of the Church.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000.

Guder, Darrell L. “Worthy Living: Work and Witness from the Perspective of Missional Church Theology.”
Word & World 25, no. 4 (Fall 2005): 424-432.

Halter, Hugh and Matt Smay. The Tangible Kingdom.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Halter, Hugh and Matt Smay. AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church.
Zondervan, 2010.

Halter, Hugh. Sacrilege: Finding Life in the Unorthodox Ways of Jesus.
Baker, 2011.

Halter, Hugh. FLESH: Bringing The Incarnation Down To Earth.
David C. Cook, 2014.

Hammond, Kim & Darren Cronshaw.  Sentness: Six Postures of Missional Christians.
IVP, 2014.

Hauerwas, Stanley. After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas.
Nashville: Abingdon, 1991.

Hill, Graham. Global Church: Reshaping Our Conversations, Renewing Our Mission, Revitalizing Our Churches.
IVP, 2016.

Hill, Graham. Salt, LIght, and a City: Introducing Missional Ecclesicology.
Wiph & Stock, 2012.

Hirsch, Alan. The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church, 2nd Edition.
Baker Books, 2016.

Hirsch, Alan. The Forgotten Ways Handbook.
Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2009.

Hirsch, Alan and Deb. Untamed.
Baker Books, 2010.

Hirsch, Alan and Lance Ford. Right Here, Right Now.
Baker Books, 2011.

Hirsch, Alan and Dave Ferguson. On The Verge.
Zondervan, 2011.

Hirsch, Alan and Michael Frost. The Faith of Leap.
Baker, 2011.

Hirsch, Alan and Tim Catchim. The Permanent Revolution.
Jossey-Bass, 2012.

Homan, Daniel O.S.B. and Lonni Collins Pratt. Radical Hospitality: Benedict's Way of Love.
Paraclete Press, 2005.

Huckins, Jon and Rob Yakley. Thin Places. 
The House Studio, 2012.

Hunsberger, George R. “Birthing Missional Faithfulness: Accents in a North American Movement.”
International Review of Mission 92, no. 365 (April 2003): 145-152.

Hunsberger, George, and Craig Van Gelder. The Church Between Gospel and Culture: The Emerging Mission in North America.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.

Jennings, Willie James. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race.
Yale University Press, 2011.

Jensen, Paul L. Subversive Spirituality: Transforming Mission Through the Collapse of Space and Time.
Pickwick Publications, 2009.

Keifert, Patrick R. We Are Here Now: A New Missional Era.
Eagle, Idaho: Allelon, 2006.

Koenig, John. New Testament Hospitality: Partnership with Strangers as Promise and Mission.
Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

Kostenberger, Andreas J. “The Place of Mission in New Testament Theology: An Attempt to Determine the Significance of Mission within the Scope of the New Testament’s Message as a Whole.”
Missiology 27, no. 3 (July 1999): 347-362.

Kostenberger, Andreas J. and Peter T. O’Brian. Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission.
InterVarsity, 2001.

Kraybill, Donald B. Upside-Down Kingdom.
Scottdale, Penn.: Herald, 2003.

Larkin, William J. Jr. and Joel F. Williams. Mission in the New Testament. 
Orbis, 1998.

Lee, Helen. The Missional Mom.
Moody Publishers, 2011.

Lutz, Stephen. College Ministry in a Post-Christian Culture.
The House Studio, 2001.

Matthey, Jacques. “God’s Mission Today: Summary and Conclusions.”
International Review of Mission 92, no. 367 (October 2003) 579-587.

Mancini, Will. Church Unique.
Jossey-Bass, 2008.

McNeal, Reggie. Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.

McNeal, Reggie. Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.

McNeil, Brenda Salter. Roadmap to Reconciliation: Moving Communities into Unity, Wholeness & Justice.
InterVarsity Press, 2016.

Mercer, Calvin. “Jesus the Apostle: Sending & the Theology of John.”
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 35, no. 4 (Dec. 1992): 457-462.

Minatrea, Milfred. Shaped by God’s Heart: The Passion & Practices of Missional Churches.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Murray, Stuart. Post-Christendom: Church and Mission in a Strange New World.
Carlisle: Paternoster, 2004.

Myers, Joseph R. The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community and Small Groups. 
Zondervan, 2003.

Myers, Joseph R. Organic Community: Creating a Place Where People Naturally Connect.
Baker, 2007.

Newbigin, Lesslie. Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1986.

Newbigin, Lesslie. The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.

Newbigin, Lesslie. The Open Secret: Introduction to a Theology of Mission.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995.

Newbigin, Lesslie. A Walk Through the Bible.
Barefoot Ministries, 2011.

Norman, Stanton R. ed. The Mission of Today’s Church.
Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2007.

Nussbaum, Stan. A Reader’s Guide to Transforming Mission.
Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2005.

Oldenburg, Ray. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of the Community.
Marlowe & Company, 1999.

Pathak Jay and Dave Runyon. The Art of Neighboring.
Baker, 2012.

Peatross, Fred. Missio Dei – in the Crisis of Christianity.
Cold Tree Press, 2007.

Perkins, John M. Restoring At-Risk Communities.
Baker, 1996.

Perkins, John M. Let Justice Roll Down.
Baker, 2012.

Peterson, Jim and Mike Shamy. The Insider: Bringing the Kingdom of God Into Your Everyday World.
NavPress, 2003.

Pohl, Christine D. Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999.

Pohl, Christine D. Living In Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2011.

Rah, Soong-Chan. The New Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church From Western Cultural Captivity.
InterVarsity Press, 2009.

Rah, Soong-Chan. Prophetic Lament: A Call For Justice in Troubled Times.
InterVarsity Press, 2015.

Randall, Ian M. “Mission in post-Christendom: Anabaptist and Free Church Perspectives.”
Evangelical Quarterly 79, no. 3 (July 2007): 227-240.

Riem, Roland. “Mission-Shaped Church: An Emerging Critique.”
Ecclesiology 3, no. 1 (September 2006): 125-139.

Roxburgh, Alan J. The Sky is Falling: Leaders Lost in Transition.
Eagle, Idaho: ACI Publishing, 2005.

Roxburgh, Alan J. Missional Map-Making.
Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Roxburgh, Alan. Missional: Joining God in the Neighborhood.
Baker, 2011.

Roxburgh, Alan. Structured For Mission: Renewing the Culture of the Church.
InterVarsity Press, 2015.

Roxburgh, Alan. Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World.
Morehouse Publishing, 2015.

Roxburgh, Alan and Scott Boren. Introducing the Missional Church.
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2009.

Roxburgh, Alan J. & Fred Romanuk. The Missional Leader: Equipping Your Church to Reach a Changing World.
San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.

Rusaw, Rick and Eric Swanson. The Externally Focused Church.
Loveland, CO: Group, 2004.

Samson, Will and Lisa Samson. Justice in the Burbs: Becoming the Hands of Jesus Wherever You Live.
Baker, 2007

Shenk, Wilbert. Write the Vision.
Wiph & Stock, 2001.

Smith, Christopher and John Pattison. Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus.
IVP, 2014.

Sparks, Paul, Tim Soerens and Dwight Friesen. The New Parish.
IVP, 2014.

Stackhouse, John G. ed. Evangelical Ecclesiology.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003.

Stetzer, Ed. Planting Missional Churches.
Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 2006.

Stetzer, Ed and David Putman. Breaking the Missional Code.
Broadman & Holman, 2006.

Sutherland, Martin. “The Kingdom Made Visible: A Missional Theology of Church.”
Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought & Practice 13, no. 1 (February 2005): 2-7.

Swanson, Eric and Rick Rusaw. The Externally Focused Quest.
Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Swanson, Eric and Sam Williams. To Transform a City: Whole Church, Whole Gospel, Whole City.
Zondervan, 2010.

Tan, Seng-Kong. “A Trinitarian Ontology of Missions.”
International Review of Mission 93, no. 369 (April 2004): 279-296

Tizon, Al. Missional Preaching: Engage Embrace Transform.
Judson Press, 2012.

Turnipseed, Lawrence R. “Turning to God: Missional Responses in the Changing U.S. Context.”
International Review of Mission 87, no. 347 (October 1998): 525-534.

Twiss, Richard. Rescuing the Gospel From The Cowboys.
InterVarsity Press, 2015.

Ulrich, Daniel W. “The Missional Audience of the Gospel of Matthew.”
Catholic Biblical Quarterly 69, no. 1 (January 2007): 64-83.

Van Engen, Charles. God’s Missionary People: Rethinking the Purpose of the Local Church.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1991.

Van Engen, Charles. Mission on the Way: Issues in Mission Theology.
Grand Rapids: Baker, 1996.

Van Gelder, Craig. “Rethinking Denominations and Denominationalism in Light of a Missional Ecclesiology.”
Word & World 25, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 23-33.

Van Gelder, Craig. Confident Witness – Changing World: Rediscovering the Gospel in North America.
Eerdmans, 1999.

Van Gelder, Craig. The Ministry of the Missional Church: A Community Led by the Spirit.
Baker, 2007.

Van Gelder, Craig. The Missional Church in Context: Helping Congregations Develop Contextual Ministry.
Eerdmans, 2007.

Van Gelder, Craig. Missional Church in Perspective.
Baker, 2011.

White, Dan. SubterraneanWhy the Future of the Church is Rootedness .
Cascade, 2015.

White, Randy. Encounter God in the City.
InterVarsity Press, 2006

Winn, Albert C. A Sense of Mission: Guidance from the Gospel of John.
Philadelphia: Westminster, 1981.

Woodward, J.R., Creating a Missional Culture.
InterVarsity, 2012.

Woodward, J.R., and Dan White Jr., Church As Movement

Wright, Christopher J.H. The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative.
Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2006.

Wright, Christopher J.H. The Mission of God's People. Zondervan, 2010.