Michael Horton, The Gospel Commission: Recovering God’s Strategy for Making Disciples (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, forthcoming 2011), 320pp., ISBN 9780801013898.
This is due out in the not-too distant future, but the publishers make available an excerpt here. The January-February 2011 edition of Modern Reformation – devoted to ‘The Great Announcement – also gives some hints about what to expect.
It effectively forms the third book in a trilogy with his earlier Christless Christianity (2008) and The Gospel-Driven Life (2009). This one, according to the publisher’s blurb, pushes for ‘a renewed understanding of and commitment to the Great Commission’.
Horton himself writes in the Introduction:
‘In Christless Christianity, I paint an unflattering but documented portrait of the message that seems to pervade contemporary churches. Following closely on its heels, The Gospel-Driven Life focuses on the core Christian message and its radical implications for our lives in the world. My goal in The Gospel Commission is to call us away from mission creep, centering our discipleship and our churches on the very specific sources, goals, strategies, and methods that Christ mandated for this time between his two comings’ (8).
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