This book by John Piper is one of the few that is not available for free on his website. But do go out and buy it, because it’s brilliant!
This book goes through the reason why God is supreme over all missions, working through them, through worship, prayer, and suffering. It then moves on to how God is sovereign over all nations and how faith in Christ is absolutely necessary for salvation (which he also expounds in his book, Jesus: The Only Way to God, reviewed HERE). Both these doctrines are under attack within the church, and Piper does an admirable job of defending them.
The bit I found most informative was the prayer part – the part where Piper discusses the effectiveness of prayer upon world missions, and how viewing God as sovereign should motivate us to pray all the more for the lost. As this is one aspect of missions and theology that is often critiqued, I found it really useful to have a Biblically sound response to these objections.
This book is fairly heavy; not light reading, but it IS really worthwhile.
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