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Reviews and Endorsements
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[Bookshelf Review]
- I have an enormous amount of material to read in the course of my work—and I try to read it all. But when I came to the manuscript that author Kayle de Waal gave me, that became his new book Mission Shift, I couldn’t put it down.
This book shares the vision that we have for the church in the South Pacific—to make more and better disciples. It also gives reasons for and practical suggestions in how we will live out our calling to be the last great disciple-making movement.
In many places in our region, our church has been there for more than 100 years. After so long, it is easy for the church to be in a rut, just going through the motions, just doing church and not thinking about the purpose of God’s church—to be the home for all the new disciples coming into His kingdom.
What Kayle does in Mission Shift—and this is what I got excited about—is talk about both where the existing church is, and how we could become that disciplemaking movement. This book is about shifting our churches to a renewed mission, and bringing meaning and effectiveness to everything we do.
Mission Shift is one of the books that I would like every pastor and elder in every church across the South Pacific to read. I think lay and pastoral leadership, need to think about why we are doing church. And I believe this will be a significant book in helping us shift to really being focused on discipleship and mission.
God’s dream for the Seventh-day Adventist Church is for it to be the last discipleship movement on earth, preparing people for Jesus’ soon return. Kayle de Waal shares this dream in this book. He gives historical and theological insights into what needs to happen for this movement to become a reality. He gives inspirational practical examples of biblical movement thinking in action. Mission Shift will change your thinking.
—Glenn Townend, President, South Pacific Division
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[Endorsement]
- “If we care about the kingdom of God, about people in our communities and about our church, Mission Shift is the kind of conversation we need to be having. Asking questions about ‘how we’ve always done it’ and how we might do ministry differently is both necessary and faithful to the disciple-making mission we have been given. Mission Shift does this provocatively, with a scholar’s insight, a pastor’s heart and an evangelist’s passion.” —Debra Brill, Vice President, North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists
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[Endorsement]
- “With an insightful understanding of history, theology and the sobering reality of our current situation as a church, Mission Shift offers a practical road map for the church. If you are interested in being a disciple, making disciples or multiplying disciples in today’s secular setting, this book is for you.” —Wayne Krause, Director of Church Planting and Church Health, Discipleship Team, South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
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[Endorsement]
- “Mission Shift is timely reading for our church. I wholeheartedly recommend this book for anyone who wants to engage in a clear, simple and transformational way with their community, and in the process, see many become disciples of Christ.” —Jorge Munoz, President, Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
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[Endorsement]
- "The future of Adventism will not be decided in academic discussions of church administrative councils - it will mainly depend on the local church. That's why Kayle de Waal's vision of an outward-focused church, engaging the community wholistically, is so crucial and timely" - Gary Krause, Director, Office of Adventist Mission
