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Excerpts from Common Mission

  I am grateful to Robert Priest who is the president of the American Missiological Society, and was the first reader for my Ph.D dissertation at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School for writing the foreword to the book. Dr. Priest has done significant research in related areas as mine and his insight gives an important framework for the book.  The following excerpt from A Common Mission is used with permission from Wipf &Stock Publishers.


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