Reality is based on relationships between created beings and the Creator Being. Mission work is about human beings who are in relationship with God introducing yet other human beings to Him. God’s purpose is relational. Our calling in mission is relational and training for mission also needs to be relational.

Darkest before the Dawn is a major contribution to the study of Christianity in China and a significant academic treatment to this vastly important subject as the author uses secular and Christian history, personal notes, questions, and interactions with students to crate a very readable guide.

This volume supplies essential information about China’s registered churches by someone who served as a missionary among them for a dozen years.

Every once in a while, you come across a book that you think every thoughtful Christian, and all Christian leaders, should read. Sorrow and Blood may be one of those books.

Dana Robert has given us a slim volume that tells the thrilling story of the spread of Christianity from its beginnings as a tiny minority in Palestine to today, when, as the “largest religion in the world,” “[t]he geographic range, cultural diversity, and organizational variety of Christianity surpass those of the other great world religions.”

Throughout this book we see an emphasis upon radical discipleship, a willingness to give up all to follow Christ, that shames comfortable believers in the West and exemplifies both the core of this book and the chief lesson which we can learn from our brothers and sisters in China.