The three-self formula and PRCA foreign missions (2)

This article examines the historical application of the three-self formula (self-governing, self-supporting, self-propagating churches) in Protestant Reformed foreign missions, specifically focusing on the Reformed Church in America's mission work in India beginning in the 1820s. Smit argues that Reformed missionaries demonstrated conscious foresight in applying these principles long before they were formally articulated by missiologists in the late 1800s, ultimately achieving their goal of establishing independent Reformed churches in India by 1947.