This book may send shock waves through the halls of Christian colleges and seminaries. Liberal and conservative schools alike come under indictment, as Donald McGavran, the dean of modern evangelical missiologists, examines the strengths and weaknesses of theological institutions in the area of evangelism and calls for a serious reprioritizing of theological curricula. If the author’s arguments are accepted and his proposals applied, the growth patterns of Christ’s church throughout the world are likely to be dramatically improved. McGavran argues that theological institutions should accept responsibility for training tomorrow’s leaders for ministry in the real world, the world in which over two billion people [1988] still need to be reached with the gospel and millions are adrift in a sea of secularism and religious confusion. He pleads for curricular revisions of a kind that will make the effective communication of God’s Word and multiplication of viable churches a substantial and required part of every school’s program. This is a theological issue, McGavran maintains, because the God of the Bible who is the object of true theological study is the God who has revealed His missionary intention for all races and people of the earth. God wants the world evangelized and discipled, and to study theology in a way that misses or minimizes this point is to adopt and perpetuate a distorted view of God and is, effect, a heresy.