Onze Zending! Our Missions!
Barry Gritters surveys the early Standard Bearer's treatment of missions as a doctrinal ecclesiological concern, explaining how the young Protestant Reformed Churches responded to criticism that their rejection of common grace made missions impossible. The article traces the editorial development of missional thought in the denomination's foundational years and clarifies how PRCA theology actually enabled rather than hindered their missionary work.
With that title, the Standard Bearer's writing about missions began. Onze Zending is Dutch for "Our Mission (Work)" and much of the SB's writing in the early years was in the Holland language, as they referred to Dutch in those days. Very soon, the writers of the SB, ministers mostly, were committed to giving instruction to the young denomination about zending -- "sending" or "missions." Not immediately, but very soon. Not immediately, because there were only three writers (the three editors:...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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