摘要：In the early 1980s, Peter Wagner, a church growth specialist of Fuller Theological Seminary, wrote a book entitled On the Crest of the Wave.2Typical of Wagner, this is a practical and easy to read book, with each chapter concluding with a "Do Something Now" list. This "one of Wagner's casual writings" has proven to be an extremely helpful book, especially among Christians to whom "mission" is a too familiar word to bother looking up in a dictionary, and yet precisely what it means, or what is not meant, is widely unknown. As an Asian Christian, I suppose this is more so among Asian churches. There are several critical and important concepts found in this book that all churches need to heed to. This study is a reflection on one particular chapter of the book: "Full Circle: Third-World Mission" (chapter 9), dialogue with the author, and a further application to Pentecostal mission. The thesis is that the Pentecostal mission has a good potential to reach the ideal pattern of Christian mission, which Wagner labels as a "full circle mission." The perspective for this paper is obviously Asian, and mission-field oriented
