In The Mission of the Church: A Biblical Theology of Mission and Ministry, Glenn Rogers identifies the underlying metatheme of Scripture and traces it through the Old and New Testaments to reveal the mission of the church, which, he concludes, is participation with God in his mission in the world--the reconciliation of all people. In this thorough but readable missiological text, Rogers traces the biblical metatheme of God's desire for a relationship with all people as it is revealed in: the creation narrative, the covenants, the symbolic language of Scripture, the incarnation, and the ministries of Jesus and Paul.