“Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
2 Corinthians 5:20
In this collection of biblical expositions, seven prominent Bible teachers lay the biblical foundation for missions based on the apostle Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians, addressing a number of oft-debated topics along the way. Chapters include:
- D. A. Carson - The Biblical Basis of Missions (2 Corinthians 4:1-12)
- David Platt - Why the Great Commission is Great (2 Corinthians 4:13-18)
- John Piper - The Heart of God in the Call to Proclaim (2 Corinthians 5:1-10)
- J. Mack Stiles - Being Ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:11-21)
- Andrew Davis - Are People without Christ Really Lost?
- Michael Oh - The Individual’s Suffering and the Salvation of the World
- Stephen Um - Jesus and Justice
God’s Love Compels Us focuses on God’s love as the motivation for missions, encouraging individual Christians to embrace the privilege of taking the gospel to the world.
Published in partnership with the Gospel Coalition.
D. A. Carson (PhD, Cambridge University) is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is a cofounder and theologian-at-large of the Gospel Coalition and has written and edited nearly two hundred books. He and his wife, Joy, have two children and live in the north suburbs of Chicago.
Kathleen Nielson (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is an author and speaker who loves working with women in studying the Scriptures. After directing the Gospel Coalition’s women’s initiatives from 2010–2017, she now serves as senior adviser and book editor for TGC. She and her husband, Niel, make their home partly in Wheaton, Illinois, and partly in Jakarta, Indonesia. They have three sons, two daughters-in-law, and five granddaughters.
Pastor, McLean Bible Church, McLean, Virginia; Founder, Radical
John Piper is founder and lead teacher of desiringGod.org and chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. He served for thirty-three years as a pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God; Don’t Waste Your Life; and Providence.
J. Mack Stiles is the director of Messenger Ministries Inc, an organization that promotes healthy missions. Mack and his family lived in the Middle East for twenty years, where he was the founder and director of the Fellowship of Christian UAE Students (FOCUS) in the United Arab Emirates. He later served as the pastor for the Erbil Baptist Church in Iraq and worked for many years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the United States. Mack is the author of Evangelism; Marks of the Messenger; and Speaking of Jesus.
