No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions (9Marks)

by Matt Rhodes

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2022

Overview

Trendy new missions strategies are a dime a dozen, promising missionaries monumental results in record time. These strategies report explosive movements of people turning to Christ, but their claims are often dubious and they do little to ensure the health of believers or churches that remain. How can churches and missionaries address the urgent need to reach unreached people without falling for quick fixes?

In No Shortcut to Success, author and missionary Matt Rhodes implores Christians to stop chasing silver-bullet strategies and short-term missions, and instead embrace theologically robust and historically demonstrated methods of evangelism and discipleship—the same ones used by historic figures such as William Carey and Adoniram Judson. These great missionaries didn’t rush evangelism; they spent time studying Scripture, mastering foreign languages, and building long-term relationships. Rhodes explains that modern missionaries’ emphasis on minimal training and quick conversions can result in slipshod evangelism that harms the communities they intend to help. He also warns against underestimating the value of individual skill and effort—under the guise of “getting out of the Lord’s way”—and empowers Christians with practical, biblical steps to proactively engage unreached groups.

Key Features

• Promotes theologically robust and historically demonstrated methods of evangelism and discipleship
• Warns against underestimating the value of individual skill and effort
• Implores Christians to stop chasing silver-bullet strategies and short-term missions

Contents

Part 1: Where Shortcuts Have Led Us: Surveying the Problem

• Professionalism and the Use of “Means”
• Movements and Rumors of Movements
• In the Scales of the Scriptures

Part 2: Correcting Our Course

• Ambassadors for Christ
• New Testament Missionary Communication
• Communicating Clearly Today
• Credibility and Boldness Today
• A Long-Term Path for Missionaries
• Equipping and Sending
• Work and the Holy Spirit

Product Details

• Title: No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions
• Author: Matt Rhodes
• Series: 9Marks
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 270
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Missions
• ISBNs: 9781433577758, 9781433577789, 9781433577765, 9781433577772, 1433577755, 143357778X, 1433577763, 1433577771
• Resource ID: LLS:NSHRTCTMSS9MRKS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:54:40Z

About Matt Rhodes

Matt Rhodes, grew up in San Diego, California, and has lived in North Africa since 2011. He and his wife, Kim, serve as part of a church-planting team to a previously unengaged people group.