Here's a great sermon by Steve Timmis about God's plan for all nations. It is QUITE insightful (from Total Church Conference in 2009). Both my husband and I stumbled across this message a few years ago and now many years later, we both remember having been really ministered unto by this message.
Here is a guiding book describing how the heart of Missions is the glory and worship of God. "Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't." --John Piper |
Here's an excellent artistic rendition of the Church and God's plan for the world.