Church Extension, Church Reformation, and Domestic Missions (2)
Bruinsma examines the distinction between church extension and church reformation within Protestant Reformed missionary practice, arguing that domestic missions need not be limited solely to reformation efforts. The article clarifies definitions and historical approaches to organizing new congregations, drawing on the PRC's experience and theological framework for missional work.
Previous article in this series: January 15, 2014, p. 178. In our first article on this subject we defined what church extension and church reformation were. We concluded that article with the thought that many in our churches believe that church extension (or domestic missions) may be accomplished only by means of church reformation. The result has been that in the past we have, for the most part, limited our domestic mission work to church reformation. We are going to pursue this more in...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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