Send

In Send, Jim issues a compelling summons for churches to recapture a sending culture, championing the cause of Christ. With clarity and biblical fidelity, Jim charts a course for churches to multiply locally through strategic church planting and local missions, while simultaneously reaching out globally through dynamic engagement in frontier missions. This is a book that will stir your soul, enlarge your perspective, and spur you to joyful obedience as we labor together for the day when God’s glory covers the earth as the waters cover the seas. | Jim Essian has served the church beautifully well in writing this short book that packs a huge punch. Founded upon the character of our sending God and his vision for his world, Jim calls us, simply, to join with our God in his sovereign plans. This would be a great book to read for “normal” Christians (like me) who find it all too easy to either lose sight of God’s global rescue plan, or else lose confidence in the part that I can usefully play. | This is a great book for all of us who are tempted to settle for a comfortable church life. We will catch a fresh excitement for our majestic mission and will be stirred up to see the part we can play. | Mobility is an essential element in the mission of the church. Without it, we are swimming in sentimentality and dancing with disobedience. This book not only gives a biblical vision of gospel mission but wisdom and guidance from a pastor and church who are praying, giving, and going. Trust me, you want to learn from Jim. These pages are a testimony of what God has done—and can do for you. If you want to see members sent and churches planted for the name of Jesus, you are holding the right book.  | Page after page, I was encouraged, uplifted, and joyful about how God allows us to be a part of his cosmic purposes. With written excellence, Jim shows us how God sends his people to accomplish his task of kingdom-building. I found this book to be a thrilling explanation of why and how God sends his people. I commend it not only to church planters and vocational missionaries but to every Christian looking to understand how God works in accomplishing his purposes through his people. | Send is a grace-saturated treatment of the radical mission of the church to magnify Christ in the Great Commission. In a thorough but concise way, Jim Essian has given us an immensely encouraging work that both informs and inspires. | Practical, prophetic, and deeply pastoral—this book is a true gift to Christ’s church. Send beautifully captures God’s heart for the lost and underscores the urgency for the church to reflect his redemptive mission. Not merely a book to read once but a resource to be studied, absorbed, and woven into the fabric of our discipleship. As we engage with its wisdom, we are compelled to reset our posture toward the Great Commission, aligning ourselves afresh with the Spirit’s leading in reaching the lost. | In a world that finds hope in anything and everything but Jesus, Jim offers a kingdom vision, a tangible invitation, and a helpful example for any disciple and every church to follow. This book will do more than just help you plant more churches or send more missionaries. In Jim’s poignant reminders, I trust that you’ll also find your role in planting the gospel and sending God’s true hope—whether to neighbors or nations—in Christ alone. | Jim Essian planted The Paradox Church in 2011 in Downtown Fort Worth and serves as Lead Pastor. He played eight years of professional baseball in the Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Detroit Tigers organizations, prior to planting.

He founded the church planting network Plant Fort Worth, which has seen 15 churches planted in the Greater Fort Worth area in the last 6 years. He is the author of Jesus For You: He Became Like You So You Could Become Like Him. Jim is married to Heather and they have three girls: Harper Grace, Hollis Jane, and Hadden Faith.