For my vacation reading – Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity – was the most impactful. The author, a professor at Seattle Pacific, tells us upfront this is going to be a serendipitous journey story. It mixes theology, missiology and story telling along the way. Quite frankly, I usually hate that, but I loved this book.
Reasons to love it:
- It is a reminder that Christianity is alive, well and vital around the world.
- It helps me again to take off the blinders of our own versions of Christianity practiced in the West.
- It helps me to hear of how suffering for the sake of the gospel is necessary for bold advance of the gospel.
- It reminded me how what we call aid and development, is a natural outgrowth of the Christian life of believers around the world.
As Leadership Network considers and weighs it’s global involvements in the future, I was constantly reminded that we have much to learn.
I can’t tell you that I marked too many pages, or drew out a whole bunch of principles from this book, but I was mighty glad that I read it. I am going to make my International Affairs major daughter read it too.
Dave Travis
Managing Director
Leadership Network
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