We’re excited about the brand new book, Rethinking Global Mobilization. We’ve just received a copy for review and, at first glance, it looks like it does a great job presenting God’s big-picture, comprehensive, holistic intent for mission mobilization as calling the global Church to her core identity. Learn more about the book here and buy your copy on Kindle or Paperback at Amazon today at https://amzn.to/3Mei05W. Once you’ve read it, please stop back here to give us your thoughts. We’ll do the same as we tie into this review copy. More to come on this one.
Isn’t Ryan Shaw the same guy whose podcast you requested that the “brigada community” view and give you feed back regarding?
Here’s the review I wrote for Missions Catalyst.
It’s far too easy and common to reduce mission mobilization to inviting individuals to respond to the Great Commission—specifically by becoming missionaries. But do we really believe every Christian has a part in to play in God’s global mission and that it’s a calling for the whole Church? If so, how might that enlarge and energize our mobilization efforts?
Ryan Shaw is President of Global Mission Mobilization Initiative (GMMI, formerly SVM2) and has spent recent decades catalyzing mission mobilization efforts in many countries. He invites us to rethink mission mobilization, develop a biblical theology of mission mobilization, recognize historical patterns of mission and mission mobilization, and devote ourselves to a more unified strategy of global mission.
Although plenty of books have been written to mobilize Christians for world missions, little has been written about mission mobilization itself. This sweeping volume—not too thick but quite thorough—may prove to be a seminal one. There’s a good chapter on types of mission mobilizers, another looking at each of the Great Commission passages, and a chapter about why the author sees the fulfillment of the Great Commission as central to the mission of the Church. Shaw addresses objections and obstacles and supports his points with scripture and other citations.