POSTMISSION
Ed. Richard Tiplady
Paternoster. 151 pages. £8.99
ISBN 1 84227 165 2
Mission leaders ought to read this book. So should church leaders concerned about the small number of people offering for long-term service as ministers or missionaries - and about the drop-out rate among those who do. Could the attrition rate be less to do with 'young people lack staying power' than with outmoded mission structures?
It may not be the 'last word' on Christian Mission in the post-modern world - but it could be a 'first', in that here we have the combined thoughts of a number of respected Generation-X mission workers from different countries, all of whom have earned their spurs in some form of mission leadership. They write with the honesty and integrity you would expect of a generation that values reality and authenticity.
