A Light to the Nations The Missional Church and the Biblical Story

A Light to the Nations The Missional Church and the Biblical Story by: Michael W. Goheen About Named an Outstanding Mission Book of 2011, International Bulletin of Missionary Research 'A remarkably comprehensive and nuanced treatment. . . . A Light to the Nations will no doubt take its place as a landmark contribution to the missional church literature, worthy of careful study.'--Craig Ott, International Bulletin of Missionary Research   There is a growing body of literature about the missional church, but the word missional is often defined in competing ways with little attempt to ground it deeply in Scripture. In A Light to the Nations, Michael Goheen unpacks the missional identity of the church by tracing the role God's people are called to play in the biblical story. Goheen examines the historical, theological, and biblical foundations of missional ecclesiology, showing that the church's identity can be understood only when its role is articulated in the context of the whole b