Reaching and Teaching A Call to Great

Reaching and Teaching focuses on Christ's command in the Great Commission and surveys missions strategies and methodologies to determine how best to faithfully fulfill all He has commanded us to do. It examines how theological education, pastoral preparation, leadership training, and in-depth discipleship are part of Christ's commission to reach the world. Ultimately, this book helps you understand and balance the command to reach and teach the nations!

M. DAVID SILLS (B.A., Belhaven College; M.Div., New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary; D.Miss., Ph.D., Reformed Theological Seminary) is a professor of Christian Missions and Cultural Anthropology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He joined Southern Seminary after serving as a missionary in Ecuador with the International Mission Board, where he served as church planter and general evangelist among the Highland Quichua people in the Andes and as a seminary professor at the Ecuadorian Baptist Theological Seminary. He also served as Rector and professor of the Baptist seminary as a missionary with Global Outreach International.

Dr. Sills is the author of The Missionary Call and two books on the Highland Quichua people published in Spanish: Quichuas de la Sierra and Capacitacion Pastoral En La Cultura Quichua.

David and his wife, Mary, have two grown children.

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
Teaching Them: The Great Omission of the Great Commission	p. 15
Missionaries Training Nationals: How Much Is Enough?	p. 31
The Bare Minimum: What Must We Teach?	p. 47
Missionaries and Nationals: Who Should Teach?	p. 67
Learning from Paul: Missiological Methods of the Apostle to the Gentiles	p. 85
Search Versus Harvest Theology: Reaching or Teaching?	p. 105
Techniques and Tools: The Greater Good, CPM, and What Only God Can Do	p. 129
Equipping Disciples: Theological Education and the Missionary Task	p. 151
Primary Oral Learners: How Shall They Hear?	p. 173
Critical Contextualization: The Balance Between Too Far and Not Far Enough	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 215
Acknowledgments	p. 221
Appendix: Southern Baptist IMB Statement on Ecclesiology	p. 225
Notes	p. 229
Bibliography	p. 237
Subject Index	p. 243
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Reaching and Teaching A Call to Great Commission Obedience

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