Reforming World Missions: Recovering a Biblical and Confessional Missiology
Book Description
In the work of world missions those who send missionaries are as important to the cause as those who are sent out. William Carey famously described missionaries as those who go down into an unexplored pit, and those who send and support missionaries as the ones who “must hold the ropes” for them. But if we are to hold the ropes, we must also know the ropes. That is, both sending churches and cross-cultural church planters must possess a missiology that is both biblically sound and confessionally robust.
This book was written to equip both churches and missionaries with just such a missiology. May God be pleased to raise up many biblically qualified missionaries who are sent well until the world is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters fill the sea!
Authors
Jerry Slate Jr. (B.A. Columbia International University) serves as one of the pastors of Berean Baptist Church in Powder Springs, Georgia, which he planted in February 2003. He married his wife, Angela, in 1993 and the Lord has blessed them with six children. He has had the privilege of preaching God’s word and training indigenous pastors in various international contexts. Jerry has served as the chairman of Reformed Baptist Mission Services (RBMS) and of the Administrative Council for the Southeastern Association of Confessional Baptist Churches. He is also the co-author (with Dr. Michael A.G. Haykin) of Loving God and Neighbor with Samuel Pearce (Lexham Publishers).
Steve Martin (M.A. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) labored in Youth and Collegiate Ministry in California, Indiana, and Georgia before attending seminary and entering the gospel ministry. He pastored in the Atlanta suburbs for 31 years before becoming a “pastor to pastors.” He served as the first Dean of Students of International Reformed Baptist Seminary in Texas. In retirement he lives in suburban Indianapolis, Indiana with his beloved wife of five decades, Cindy. He has two children married in the Lord and six grandchildren.
David Vinson (B.M.E. Georgia Institute of Technology) is a retired Mechanical Engineer and has been married to his wife Cathy for forty-six years. They have six children and five grandchildren. During the 38 years of his Christian life, he has had only two pastors – Steve Martin and Jerry Slate. Both have faithfully taught, trained, encouraged, and exhorted him to love and serve the Lord as a layman. He is the author of the Christian science fiction novel, The First Sentinel.
John A. Miller (D.Ed.Min. Candidate Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.M. Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary) is one of the pastors at Redeemer Baptist Church near Macon, Georgia. He also serves as the Vice-President and Professor of Practical Theology at Covenant Baptist Theological Seminary. John is also actively engaged in training indigenous pastors in various countries around the world. He has been married to his beloved wife Elizabeth since 2004, and they have been blessed with four children.
Additional Information
Cover: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 608
Publisher: Founders Press
Publication Date: 2026