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  1. Copyright and Edition Notice
  2. Introduction: The Mission That Is Not Finished
  3. The Mission
  4. The God Who Sends
  5. Blessed for the Nations
  6. Jesus and the Nations
  7. From Jerusalem to the Ends of the Earth
  8. What Does It Mean for the Mission to Be “Finished”?
  9. How Christianity Became Global
  10. From Apostles to a World Faith
  11. Mission, Empire, and the Modern Missionary Movement
  12. Christianity Moves South and East
  13. From “The West to the Rest” to “Everywhere to Everywhere”
  14. Mapping the Unfinished Mission
  15. What Does “Unreached” Actually Mean?
  16. Where Gospel Access Remains Least
  17. The Many Muslim Worlds
  18. South Asia: Religion, Caste, and Community
  19. Beyond the Religious Label
  20. The Secular and Post-Christian Frontier
  21. The Language and Scripture Frontier
  22. Cities, Migration, and the Moving Mission Field
  23. Why the Gaps Persist
  24. The Allocation Problem
  25. The Hard Places
  26. The Distance Problem
  27. When Mission Becomes Peripheral
  28. The Calling Question
  29. The Problem of Short Horizons
  30. When Mission Goes Wrong
  31. What Faithful Mission Requires Now
  32. The Local Church as the Missionary Horizon
  33. Contextualization: Faithful Gospel, Local Form
  34. Local Ownership and Global Partnership
  35. Missionary Formation and Member Care
  36. New Pathways Into the Missionary World
  37. The Whole Church and the Unfinished Mission
  38. Conclusion: Faithful Until the End
  39. Methodological Note: Statistics, Categories, and Source Freeze
  40. Glossary
  41. Selected Bibliography

The Mission

The Mission

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Part I begins before missionary organizations, global statistics, strategic maps, or modern debates about the unreached. Christian mission makes sense only within a theological story: the God revealed in Scripture creates, judges, calls, sends, saves, gathers, and promises a future in which people from the nations worship before him. The church’s missionary vocation is derivative. It participates in an initiative that precedes it.

That conviction does not answer every strategic question. It tells us what kind of question strategy is allowed to answer.