Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Ed Stetzer -- Essay 1: "Mission" Defined and described / Charles Van Engen -- On becoming missional: interacting with Charles Van Engen / Keith E. Eitel -- "Mission" and missio dei: response to Charles Van Engen's "'Mission' defined and described" / Enoch Wan -- Defining and describing "mission": a response to Charles Van Engen, Keith Eitel, and Enoch Wan / Darrell L. Guder -- Twelve theses on the church's mission in the twenty-first century: in interaction with Charles Van Engen, Keith Eitel, and Enoch Wan / Andreas J. Ko stenberger -- Responding to "'Mission' defined and described" and the four responders / Ed Stetzer -- Essay 2: The Gospel in human contexts: changing perceptions of contextualization / Paul G. Hiebert -- Response to Paul G. Hiebert: "The Gospel in human contexts: changing perceptions of contextualization" / Michael Pocock -- Response to Paul G. Hiebert: "The Gospel in human contexts: changing perceptions of contextualization" / Darrell L. Whiteman -- A response to Paul G. Hiebert: "The Gospel in human contexts : changing perceptions of contextualization" and to Darrell Whiteman and Michael Pocock / Norman L. Geisler -- Reponse to Hiebert's article: "The Gospel in human contexts" and to the responses of Pocock and Whiteman / Avery T. Willis Jr. -- Responding to "The Gospel in human contexts: changing perceptions of contextualization" / Ed Stetzer -- Essay 3: The future of evangelicals in mission / Ralph D. Winter -- Looking backward while going forward: a response to Winter's vision / Scott Moreau -- In response to "The future of evangelicals in mission" / Christopher R. Little -- The missing key to the future of evangelical mission / Mike Barnett -- In response to Ralph Winter's "The future of evangelicals in mission" / J. Mark Terry -- Responding to "The future of evangelicals in mission" / Ed Stetzer -- Conclusion: A scientific postscript: grist for the missiological mills of the future / David J. Hesselgrave.