Prologue
1. A Tale of Two Missions
2. From Corporation to Locally Owned
3. From Profits to Prophets
4. From Convert to Cosmos
5. From Solitary to Solidarity
6. From Mainstream to Margin
7. From Independent to Interdependent
8. From Growth to Flourishing
Epilogue
Notes
Scott Bessenecker is associate director for missions for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and author of several books, including The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor. He blogs at urbana.org and can be followed on Twitter at @Bessenecker.
"The author challenges the church to find ways to serve Christ with
our neighbors across the barriers of capitalist free markets,
Western boomer power and materialistic culture. He identifies
global trends and directions, as well as providing creative
missional solutions to enable the kingdom of God to truly flourish
around our world."
*Robert L. Gallagher, Outreach Magazine's Resources of the Year,
March/April 2015*
"Fasten your seatbelts and get ready for a very challenging ride.
Scott Bessenecker´s prophetic words and warnings will challenge and
threaten, but they are desperately needed. He confronts errant
worldview assumptions and forces the reader to wrestle with the
uncritical acceptance of capitalistically driven mission-sending
structures. If you are willing to do some ruthless self-criticism,
Overturning Tables will leave you feeling more equipped to face the
future of global missions."
*Paul Borthwick, senior consultant, Development Associates
International, author, Western Christians in Global Mission*
"Does the book convincingly expose a true evil here, in this
modern-day businesslike approach to missions? Are mission
organizations unsuccessful—not winning any souls, in other words—by
adopting this approach? By managing stewardship responsibly, by
making sure the work is done and funded, by ensuring the mission's
sustainability? The book makes its case clearly, and ultimately
it's for the individual missions leader to decide."
*Billie Rae Bates, ForeWord Reviews, Winter 2015*
"In Overturning Tables [Bessenecker] shows that the mission of God
reaches well beyond the grasp of the free market, and if we are
willing to reach as well, we will see God even as the world sees
the gospel in its fullest sense."
*Light Magazine Canada, November 2014*
"Bessenecker has provided the Body of Christ with a penetrating
analysis of our current status, coupled with a keen understanding
of how we have arrived at this place."
*Joel Rainey, Evangelical Missions Quarterly, October 2015*
"This is a well-written, provocative book. It needs to be carefully
read by North American leaders of Christian churches and
organizations."
*Grace Tazelaar, Journal of Christian Nursing, Vol. 32, No. 3*
"The book provides a refreshing view of how new structures and new
workers from the margins must create a new season of interdependent
missions as Christians 'shed our egos, embrace our limitations' and
divorce commerce from the only offer that matters—the good
news."
*Kathy Robinson, Baptist Standard, June 8, 2015*
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