New thoughts & strategies

MISSION AFTER CHRISTENDOM
By David Smith
Darton Longman & Todd.144 pages. £12.95
ISBN 0 232 52483 1

Are we dodos? According to David Smith, Lecturer in Mission and World Christianity at the International Christian College in Glasgow, much of our current practice in missions and evangelism needs drastically updating. Since the 'glory days' when Western missionaries took the gospel of Christ all around the world, there have been three big changes.

First, European Christendom is dead. The days when Christianity dominated the culture and values of Western civilisation have passed. We need to get used to this and see it as a challenge to rediscover a more countercultural, more biblical faith.