What on Earth Is the Church For? A Blueprint for the Future for Church Based Mission And Social Action

David Devenish believes that the church exists as a means of taking the gospel message to every people group. He believes that the church is very much at the center of God's purposes and in this book presents the church not as a static pastoral community but as a vibrant active body totally committed to world mission.David investigates the importance of church planting to reach the nations and looks at Churchbased mission and how to make local churches "missiona" in both thinking and practice.Set within a framework of the Kingdom of God David demonstrates what the "Kingdom down to earth" really implies for Churchbased Kingdom social action.Finally David examines the culture and contextualisation of social action along with some of the dangers and difficulties of apostolic mission before asking the fundamental question "Who will go"Devenish, David is the author of 'What on Earth Is the Church For? A Blueprint for the Future for Church Based Mission And Social Action', published 2006 under ISBN 9781860245374 and ISBN 1860245374.