Compelled by his own character, God is passionate to make himself known to people from every tribe, language, and nation on earth. In The Purpose-Driven God, author Dennis D. Cochrane explores this global mission and the importance it holds for God.

Cochrane identifies five matters of supreme importance to God:

• his desire for personal oneness with humankind;

• universal worship for himself because he seeks only what rightly and exclusively belongs to him;

• his promises made with an oath, to bless people in all nations through Abraham’s descendants, ultimately Christ;

• the inheritance God promised his Son: “I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.”; and,

• the Lord’s compassion for humankind in their temporal and eternal needs.