I completed the draft of my fifteenth book (The Apostolic Imagination: Rethinking Contemporary Missions) yesterday. Stay tuned. It is now off to Baker Academic for the editing process.
I am a strong believer in writing and publishing. I attribute this value to what was modeled before me as a graduate and doctoral student. Thom Rainer was my Ph.D. supervisor. He is a prolific writer. I remember him making a passing comment in class about his goal to write one book each year. I thought that was an amazing goal and considered it a personal challenge–not for everyone, of course.
Little is being done to encourage others in missiological writing, especially younger leaders and those from Majority World contexts. I hope today’s post helps change this issue at least a little.
Jeff Christopherson is a long-time friend and helps lead a council of missiologists of which I am a member. Recently, the council hosted a think tank for emerging leaders. Jeff’s session is posted below. This is by far the best material I have seen to encourage missiological writing.
Jeff is not an academician, but has an apostolic imagination and writes as a researcher and an informed practitioner. His writings are practical in their orientation. They not based on extensive footnotes and social research methods, more akin to academic missiological writing.
If you are interesting in doing missiological writing, then I strongly encourage you to take 25 minutes and watch! There are many golden nuggets of truth found here, applicable to all authors in the field. Thank you, Jeff!