Reaching and Teaching: A Call to Great Commission Obedience

Abstract

Ralph Winter’s 1974 presentation at the Lausanne Conference drastically changed the focus of mission strategy from political nation states to people groups. This transfer of emphasis eventual lead to the current stress upon “unreached people groups” that is currently held by the majority of mission agencies. The identification of unreached people groups in turn has lead to the focus upon engaging and reaching all the people groups of the world as quickly as possible. In Reaching and Teaching: A Call to Great Commission Obedience, M. David Sills seeks to call attention to the most glaring weakness in the prevailing mission strategy of the day – a failure to teach all that Jesus has commanded. Sills is qualified to offer guidance in this area as he has served as a church planter and professor in Ecuador. He is currently the A.P. and Faye Stone Professor of Christian Missions and Cultural Anthropology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY and president of Reaching and Teaching International Ministries.