COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO—For the 17th consecutive year, Outreach magazine is celebrating some of the best outreach-oriented books and curricula by honoring them as Outreach Resources of the Year.
The Outreach Resources of the Year aim to highlight valuable resources for church leaders and bring deserved attention to resources that can help churches better engage in effective outreach to share the gospel and reach communities for Christ.
More than 170 resources published between Nov. 1, 2017, and Oct. 31, 2018, were submitted for consideration and placed into 11 categories. An expert in each category evaluated the resources and chose what they considered to be the best. The experts also chose how many resources to recognize, and whether to include any as “Also Recommended.”
The 2019 Outreach Resources of the Year are:
EVANGELISM
- Spiritual Conversations in the Digital Age (Barna Group)
APOLOGETICS
- Apologetics at the Cross by Joshua D. Chatraw and Mark D. Allen (Zondervan)
ALSO RECOMMENDED
- God Is Stranger by Krish Kandiah (IVP)
CHURCH
- Underground Church by Brian Sanders (Zondervan)
- Zealous for Good Works by Todd A. Wilson (Moody Publishers)
ALSO RECOMMENDED
- The Forgotten Church by Glenn Daman (Moody Publishers)
- People Are the Mission by Danny Franks (Zondervan)
MINISTRY LEADERSHIP
- Hero Maker by Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird (Zondervan)
- Rooting for Rivals by Peter Greer and Chris Horst (Bethany House)
ALSO RECOMMENDED
- The Fellowship of the Suffering by Paul Borthwick and Dave Ripper
- The Life-Giving Leader by Tyler Reagin (WaterBrook)
- The Minority Experience by Adrian Pei (IVP)
- Moral Leadership for a Divided Age by David P. Gushee and Colin Holtz (Brazos Press)
CULTURE
- Healing Our Broken Humanity by Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Graham Hill (IVP)
CROSS-CULTURAL/MISSIONAL
- Whole and Reconciled by Al Tizon (Baker Academic)
ALSO RECOMMENDED
- Megachurch Christianity Reconsidered by Wanjiru M. Gitau (IVP)
SOCIAL ISSUES/JUSTICE
- Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique DuBois Gilliard (IVP)
- What Does It Mean to Be Welcoming? by Travis Collins (IVP)
ALSO RECOMMENDED
- A Sojourner’s Truth by Natasha Sistrunk Robinson (IVP)
THEOLOGY/BIBLICAL STUDIES
- The Bible Unwrapped by Meghan Larissa Good (Herald Press/MenoMedia)
- How to Read Theology by Uche Anizor (Baker Academic)
SPIRITUAL GROWTH
- The Lost Discipline of Conversation by Joanne J. Jung (Zondervan)
ALSO RECOMMENDED
- Didn’t See It Coming by Carey Nieuwhof (WaterBrook)
- Open to the Spirit by Scot McKnight (WaterBrook)
- Subversive Sabbath by A.J. Swoboda (Brazos Press)
COUNSELING AND RELATIONSHIPS
- Unwanted by Jay Stringer (NavPress)
ALSO RECOMMENDED
- Mental Health and the Church by Stephen Grcevich (Zondervan)
CHILDREN AND YOUTH
- Shipwrecked: Rescued By Jesus (Group Publishing)
- When God Made Light by Matthew Paul Turner (WaterBrook)
ALSO RECOMMENDED
- Adoptive Church by Chap Clark (Baker Academic)
Outreach magazine offers the ideas, insights and stories of today’s outreach-oriented, Bible-based churches. Founded in January 2003 by church communications company Outreach Inc., Outreach is an award-winning, bimonthly periodical for church leadership and is available by subscription. Find out more at OutreachMagazine.com.
