Into Africa…Again
Barry Gritters recounts a 2010 missionary visit by the PRCA to Reformed believers in Namibia who were seeking fellowship with the Protestant Reformed Churches due to dissatisfaction with their own denomination. The article describes how initial contact was made through Reformed literature, the doctrinal discussions during the visit (including the PRCA's positions on covenant theology and common grace), and the subsequent challenges to maintaining formal ecclesiastical relations due to denominational structures.
In 2010, the Committee for Contact with other Churches (CC) sent Professors R. Dykstra and B. Gritters to visit Reformed believers in Namibia who requested a visit from the PRCA. The believers there were very displeased with their denomination -- the Reformed Churches of South Africa -- and hoped the Protestant Reformed Churches were of like mind with them. What they had read of our churches gave them such hope. These saints in Namibia had heard of the PRCA through literature recommended to...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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