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Book review: Discovering the Mission of God: Best Missional Practices for the 21st Century

Sanneh’s early years as a Muslim, his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, and his love of fellow humans serves his commitment to interfaith dialogue. He claims that any meaningful dialogue “must be based on relations among each other, not on the truth claims of the traditions that happen to share a common world” (183). One of the early surprises for Sanneh was finding the sacred Scripture of Christians translated into the mother tongue of indigenous peoples, unlike in Islam where no translation could substitute for the original Arabic. He came to believe that “without the specific, earthly embodiment of language, Christians would not know themselves or their God” (225). The importance of the vernacular for Sanneh is spelled out in his earlier work, Translating the Message, published by Orbis. The vernacular and interfaith dialogue are just two missiological principles embedded among others in this book that reveals the life of one in whom the marriage of head and heart, faith and reason, stands out in bold relief. This memoir is a “must read” for pastors, missionaries, seminary professors, and students.