• Home
  • NextSunday Resources
  • Careers
  • Contact Us
  • Home
  • Biblical Studies
  • Spirituality / Christian Living
  • Church & Culture
  • Ministry / Leadership
  • Devotion / Inspiration
  • Baptist Studies
  • Contact

Smyth & Helwys Books

Welcome

  • Books
    • All Books
    • Baptist Studies
    • Biblical Books
      • New Testament Books
      • Old Testament Books
    • Church & Culture
    • Church History
    • Ministry / Leadership
      • Christian Education
      • Family Ministry
        • Youth
      • Pastoral Care
        • Grief / Crisis
      • Preaching
      • Worship
    • Spirituality / Christian Living
      • Devotion / Inspiration
    • Theology
    • Women’s Studies
  • New Books
  • Series
    • All the Bible
    • Annual Bible Study
    • Cecil Sherman Formations Commentary
    • Cotton Patch Gospel
    • Help! Series
    • Preaching the Word
    • Reading the New Testament, 1st Series
    • Reading the New Testament, 2nd Series
    • Reading the Old Testament
    • Regent’s Study Guides
    • Sessions Series
  • S&H Bible Commentary
    • SHBC Overview
    • Supplemental Series
    • Available Volumes
    • Volume Bundles
    • Standing Order Plan
    • SHBC Updates
  • Biblical Studies
    • New Testament Studies
    • Old Testament Studies
  • Ministry/Leadership
    • Christian Education
    • Family Ministry
      • Youth
    • Pastoral Care
      • Grief / Crisis
    • Preaching
    • Worship
  • Christian Living
    • Devotion / Inspiration
  • Sale
    • Monthly Sales

An Interview with Robert Nash

January 1, 2021 by Holly Bean

Rob Nash currently serves as the Arnall-Mann-Thomasson Professor of Mission and World Religions and associate dean at the McAfee School of Theology of Mercer University and as senior pastor of Heritage Fellowship in Canton, Georgia. He also served for six years as the Global Mission Coordinator for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and is the former dean of the School of Religion and International Studies at Shorter College. Nash grew up in the Philippines, where his parents served as Baptist missionaries for more than 30 years. He has traveled extensively in some 90 countries, either during his childhood or as part of his work with CBF, Shorter College, and mission immersion experiences at McAfee. He is married to the former Guyeth Godwin, and they are parents to two adult children.

What were you hoping to achieve with your new book, Moving the Equator: The Families of the Earth and the Mission of the Church?

My hope is that the book offers followers of Jesus and congregations a biblically-grounded theology of mission that encourages them to be as open to receiving the blessings of other religions and cultures as they are to extending God’s blessings to those religions and cultures.  I know my own Baptist tradition well enough to know that scripture is the foundation for our beliefs about God, church, and mission but I also know that our own interpretations often become trapped by cultural lenses through which we read scripture.  My intention was to present a new reading of scripture and of culture that offered a path forward in an age of diversity and pluralism.  How might we think differently about Christian mission in such a world?

What do you feel is the most challenging aspect facing churches today?

Without doubt, it is our fear of otherness and difference.  We simply do not possess a theology of mission that is adequate to a day of competing world views, religions and cultural perspectives.  We do not know how to receive a blessing from someone who offers such blessing to us from within their own worldview and faith.  We have been taught to “defend the faith” rather than to embrace those from other faiths with openness, curiosity, and a listening spirit.  Without such embrace, we miss the divine blessing that others want to offer to us.  In this way we diminish our own understanding of God even as we create walls that prevent others from receiving the blessing we want to give to them.

[Read more…]

Browse Book Categories

  • All Books
  • All the Bible
  • Annual Bible Study
  • Baptist Studies
  • Biblical Books
  • Biblical Studies
  • Biography / Autobiography
  • Cecil Sherman Formations Commentary
  • Christian Education
  • Church & Culture
  • Church History
  • Contextualizing the Gospel
  • Cotton Patch Gospel
  • Devotion / Inspiration
  • Family Ministry
  • Featured Books
  • Fiction
  • God
  • Grief / Crisis
  • Help! Series
  • Humor
  • Jesus
  • Ministry
  • Ministry / Leadership
  • Monthly Sales
  • New Books
  • New Testament Books
  • New Testament Studies
  • Old Testament Books
  • Old Testament Studies
  • Pastoral Care
  • Peake Road Press
  • Poetry
  • Preaching
  • Preaching the Word
  • Proclaiming the Baptist Vision
  • Reading the New Testament, 1st Series
  • Reading the New Testament, 2nd Series
  • Reading the Old Testament
  • Regent’s Study Guides
  • Sale
  • Self-Help
  • Series
  • Sessions Series
  • Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary
  • Spirituality / Christian Living
  • Theology
  • Volume Bundles
  • Women’s Studies
  • Worship
  • Youth

Helpful Links

  • Our History
  • Careers
  • Booksellers
  • Libraries
  • Media
  • Author Marketing Form
  • Exam/Desk Copy Request
  • Submit a Manuscript
  • Delivery Policy
  • Return/Refund Policy
  • Contact

Contact Us

Company Address:
6316 Peake Road
Macon, GA 31210-3960

Phone:
478-757-0564
800-747-3016

Fax:
478-757-1305

Hours of Operation:
Monday–Thursday 8:00–5:30 EST
Friday 8:00–1:00 EST
Saturday–Sunday Closed

Find Us Online

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2022 · Smyth & Helwys Books

Copyright © 2022