Volume 1, November Issue - From the Editor

Missions encompasses a wide range of definitions these days. For some, missions can only mean the traditional missionary moving from one country to another. For others, everything is mission. A mission is a provided assignment and can be very specific or very general. That said, the missional focus of God encompasses all who are willing to obey. “Should you choose to accept it…” is the phrase of Mission Impossible. The aspect of being missional, communally or individually, is to accept the mission God has.

Deep Missional Review generally engages the subjects of spirituality, justice and mission with the express application for cross-contextual mission. The lens of DMR is for traditional and not so traditional missionaries who engage in ministry in a cross-contextual way. For some that will mean engaging new people groups; for others that may be engaging in a new sub-culture.

One of the values of the information age is the ability to gain access to presentations, lectures and other forms of media. The downfall of this is the time needed to sift through all of the accessible options. DMR has begun reviews on mission, justice and spirituality media from Itunes University. In this issue find reviews of lectures on the missiology of Matthew, Luke and John. Also, find reviews on preparing post-modern missionaries and the trends of member care.

Likewise, the number of books being published in mission, justice and spirituality are overwhelming, and no missionary, missions committee or professor has the time or funds necessary to sift through all the published books. This month, catch the first of a three-part review of The Global Mission Handbook. Catch also the review of Look What God is Doing, another book about God’s global mission.

I hope that this first issue of DMR proves to be the launching of a valuable resource for missionaries, missions organizations and professors of missions throughout the world.