A light to the nations : the missional church and the biblical story - Goheen, Michael W., 1955- (Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, 2011)
The church's identity and role : whose story? which images? -- God forms Israel as a missional people -- Israel embodies its missional role and identity amid the nations -- Jesus gathers an eschatological people to take up their missional calling -- The death and resurrection of Jesus and the church's missional identity -- The missional church in the New Testament story -- New Testament images of the missional church -- The missional church in the biblical story : a summary -- What might this look like today?
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-228) and indexes.
Keywords: Mission of the church; Mission of the church -- Biblical teaching