Not sure where to start?
Try our reading paths — books in order, with a guide for each step（5）→
Timothy and Kathy Keller's 2011 book, from a sermon series on Ephesians 5: marriage as covenant rather than feeling, shaped by the gospel of Christ's self-giving love, with chapters on singleness and on complementary roles.
Gary Chapman's 1992 bestseller: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service and physical touch. Learning to speak your spouse's love language fills their "love tank" — the most practical book on this path.
Robert E. Coleman's The Master Plan of Evangelism (1963): not techniques but the method of Jesus himself — selection, association, consecration, impartation, demonstration, delegation, supervision and reproduction. His plan was not to win crowds but to raise up disciples who would make disciples.
Toward a Missional Church (2015) by Chinese New Testament scholar Che-Bin Tan: from the Gospels, Acts and Paul, mission not as one programme among many but as the church's very nature — applied to the realities of Chinese churches today.
Elisabeth Elliot's Quest for Love (1996), a companion to Passion and Purity: thirty chapters built on letters from readers about singleness, waiting, purity, failure and grace, and marriage, with the love stories of missionaries such as Adoniram Judson and Hudson and Maria Taylor. Chinese edition 1998.
Looking at Mission from Acts (1988) by James Hudson Taylor III, great-grandson of Hudson Taylor, missionary to Taiwan and founding president of China Evangelical Seminary: God's mission from Genesis to Malachi, the Great Commission, and the church's advance from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth in Acts — a call to mission for the Chinese church.
J.I. Packer's Knowing God (1973), one of the best-loved theological books of the twentieth century: why knowing God matters most, a meditation on his attributes, and what it means that God is for us — theology that turns knowledge into worship.