Sunday, July 12, 2026

Book: Called to Witness - doing missional theology

One of the leading voices in the missional church conversation, Darrell Guder here lays out basic theological issues that must be addressed for the church to serve God faithfully as Christ's witnessing people. 

Guder argues that there are major consequences for every classical theological locus if the fundamental claims of the missional church discussion are acknowledged. 

In Called to Witness he delves into these consequences, saying that we need to keep doing missional theology until it is possible to leave off the "missional scaffolding" because, after all, mission defines the very essence and calling of the church.

Chapters 

  1. Reconstructing Theology: Mission and the Task of Theology
  2. The Missional Challenge: De-Centering Christendom
  3. The Missional Calling: The Apostolic Vocation of the Church
  4. Why the Term “Missional”?
  5. The Witness of God: The Trinitarian Foundation for Missional Theology
  6. The Witness of God’s Word: Reading Scripture Missionally
  7. The Witness of God’s People: The Royal Priesthood
  8. The Witness of the Marks of the Church: The Nicene Creed
  9. Integrating Theological Formation for Apostolic Vocation
  10. The End of Missional Theology

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