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For the Sake of His Name: Challenging a New Generation for World Missions
God is calling this generation to go out for the sake of His Name. Who is called to go? What is our task as missionaries? Where should we focus our resources? How do we prepare? Do we really need to go? The field of missiology is filled with unanswered questions and unsupported opinions. In For the Sake of His Name , the authors not only challenge the next generation to learn from student movements gone by, but they also drive readers to the Scriptures for answers to their foundational questions. Come. Be Challenged. People from every nation are waiting to glorify God!
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299 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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December 31, 2025
The Focus of this book is to set the missionary effort against the clear teaching of Scripture and what was demonstrated by the apostles in establishing churches in Jerusalem, Judea, and to the “uttermost part of the world.
David Doran says it best in addressing the overall mistakes made in pursuing missions.
“Current mission work is too heavily tilted in those places where the gospel already has a strong presence. So we must loudly sound the cry for pioneer missionaries to rise up to the challenge of taking the gospel into unreached frontiers. The territory of the Great Commission (Matthew 28) is global, and the hot spots of the battle are those places where Christ has not been named.”
Look at the number of unreached villages in Paupa New Guinea that don’t even have a written language let alone a copy of scriptures and most without without an established churches.
I especially appreciated Chapter 4, “The Target of the Great Commission.” Church planting MUST be the target of the Great Commission. Instead of planting churches, “a combination of our American culture’s pragmatism and impatience sends (we-missionaries) rushing forward to win as many converts as we can and as fast as we can” without fulfilling the goals of the Great Commission to include evangelization, baptizing, and teaching and making disciples (all to be done in the context of the local church setting.)
This book is a must read for anyone called to serve our Lord Jesus Christ in the capacity of missions.
Doran writes his book using the template of Scripture for shaping a correct focus in missions. He does an excellent job of clearly articulating the New Testament commands concerning missions.
He argues for the “proclamational” model as opposed to the “social action agenda” that most missionary organizations follow.
Other favorite quotes:
“The priority of missions must be faithfulness to God and His Word, not fruitfulness. We must prioritize faithfulness above fruitfulness.”
“Being faithful to God’s Word means we will never treat it like a commodity to be shaped and molded by marketing strategies, either at home or on the mission field.”
Missions must be God-centered. “This God centered perspective, and not man-centered one, is a fundamental requirement of pleasing God and benefiting people. If the pursuit of God’s glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man’s good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the church, man will not be well served and God will not be duly honored.”
“God’s first love is rooted in the value of His Holy name , not on the value of sinful people.”
I could write more but if you are encouraged by some of these quotes, you need to purchase the book and spend time with these wise words on missions.
Chas Morse
David Doran says it best in addressing the overall mistakes made in pursuing missions.
“Current mission work is too heavily tilted in those places where the gospel already has a strong presence. So we must loudly sound the cry for pioneer missionaries to rise up to the challenge of taking the gospel into unreached frontiers. The territory of the Great Commission (Matthew 28) is global, and the hot spots of the battle are those places where Christ has not been named.”
Look at the number of unreached villages in Paupa New Guinea that don’t even have a written language let alone a copy of scriptures and most without without an established churches.
I especially appreciated Chapter 4, “The Target of the Great Commission.” Church planting MUST be the target of the Great Commission. Instead of planting churches, “a combination of our American culture’s pragmatism and impatience sends (we-missionaries) rushing forward to win as many converts as we can and as fast as we can” without fulfilling the goals of the Great Commission to include evangelization, baptizing, and teaching and making disciples (all to be done in the context of the local church setting.)
This book is a must read for anyone called to serve our Lord Jesus Christ in the capacity of missions.
Doran writes his book using the template of Scripture for shaping a correct focus in missions. He does an excellent job of clearly articulating the New Testament commands concerning missions.
He argues for the “proclamational” model as opposed to the “social action agenda” that most missionary organizations follow.
Other favorite quotes:
“The priority of missions must be faithfulness to God and His Word, not fruitfulness. We must prioritize faithfulness above fruitfulness.”
“Being faithful to God’s Word means we will never treat it like a commodity to be shaped and molded by marketing strategies, either at home or on the mission field.”
Missions must be God-centered. “This God centered perspective, and not man-centered one, is a fundamental requirement of pleasing God and benefiting people. If the pursuit of God’s glory is not ordered above the pursuit of man’s good in the affections of the heart and the priorities of the church, man will not be well served and God will not be duly honored.”
“God’s first love is rooted in the value of His Holy name , not on the value of sinful people.”
I could write more but if you are encouraged by some of these quotes, you need to purchase the book and spend time with these wise words on missions.
Chas Morse
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