9Marks Church-Centered Missions

Pastors from America and India Share How They Patiently and Faithfully Lead Missions in Their Local Churches What role should the local church play in the mission to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth? Many Christians view missions work as a task for large churches or parachurch ministries. But God commands all believers in churches of all sizes to protect and proclaim his word. Working together patiently and faithfully, we can reach nations with the gospel. In this brief guide, pastors Aaron Menikoff from Atlanta, Georgia, and Harshit Singh from Lucknow, India, share their journeys leading missions-centered churches in two different settings. Through their personal stories, they teach Scripture-led methods for fostering missions-minded congregations. Emphasizing the importance of patient training and church planting-in terms of years, not months-Menikoff and Singh help pastors and staff overcome geographic, cultural, and linguistic barriers to passionately start and strengthen churches around the world. - Biblical: Helps churches understand their God-given responsibility to train and send quality missionaries - Comprehensive: Examines long-term ways local churches can be missions-centered-through consistent evangelism, expositional preaching, prayer, singing, gathering, and ordinances - Accessible: Written to guide pastors, staff, and missions-minded Christians in developing a healthy view of missions - Part of the 9Marks Church-Centered Missions Series

Encourage Long-Term Faithfulness in Missions with a Biblically Informed Strategy That Recenters the Church The church is the origin, means, and end of missions. Scripture calls on missionaries to start and strengthen churches where new believers-and more missionaries-can grow. But today, many Christians downplay the role of the church in favor of pragmatism and parachurch ministries, weakening the missions cause. In this brief guide, pastors John Folmar and Scott Logsdon share their decades of experience working as pastors in Muslim countries. Showing how healthy churches are essential for fulfilling the Great Commission, they teach biblical ecclesiology and missiology with wisdom and real-world advice from the field. They also caution readers against movement-driven missions, theological minimalism, and other techniques that replace the church's God-given roles of equipping, training, and sending missionaries. Offering an effective, biblical strategy for global evangelism, Prioritizing the Church in Missions helps pastors and churches not only make Christ known throughout the world but ensure that God's word is preserved long after missionaries leave. - Accessible Guide on Ecclesiology and Missiology: Explores the biblical role of the church in equipping, training, and sending qualified missionaries as well as the dangers of unhealthy missions practices - Practical: Equips churches for effective evangelism, expositional preaching, prayer, and partnering together in the Great Commission - Helps Churches Build a Biblically Informed Missionary Strategy: Ideal for missions-minded pastors, staff, students, and lay believers - Part of the 9Marks Church-Centered Missions Series