Minister-On-Loan—A God-Given Opportunity to Help a Sister Church
This editorial by Russell Dykstra explains the Protestant Reformed Churches' practice of loaning ministers to sister churches, using Rev. Andy Lanning's assignment to the Covenant Evangelical Reformed Church in Singapore as a contemporary example. The article addresses common questions about this ministerial lending practice, its biblical and historical basis in PRC polity, and how it reflects the denomination's commitment to spreading Reformed preaching and sovereign grace doctrine globally.
Previous article in this series: November 1, 2012, p. 53. What is a minister-on-loan (MOL)? Why are we sending Rev. Lanning to Singapore as an MOL? Have we ever done this before? Is he still a minister in the Protestant Reformed Churches? How long will he be an MOL? Why couldn't he go to Singapore for a year or two, and come back to the PRC, perhaps even to Faith? Why didn't Covenant Evangelical Reformed Church (CERC) call one of our ministers? These are some of the questions that I have...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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