The covenant of God and our mission to the world (1)
Daniel Holstege explores the biblical and theological relationship between God's covenant and the church's missionary calling to the world. Drawing from his personal experience as a child raised in a covenantal Protestant Reformed home and later as a missionary to the Philippines, Holstege argues for deeper integration of covenant theology and missional thinking within Reformed doctrine. This article begins a series aimed at developing how these two foundational biblical concepts mutually inform and strengthen each other.
The covenant of God. Our mission to the world. How often have we thought about these highly significant biblical concepts together? How often, when discussing one, have we been led to discuss the other? How deeply has our thinking penetrated into the glorious realities and urgent callings that lie at the intersection of these truths? It is the humble opinion of this writer that there is room for growth in our understanding of the relation between these marvelous truths of Scripture. The...
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