Preparing for Worldwide Missions
Julian Kennedy advocates for the PRCA to develop strategic, long-term planning for worldwide missionary deployment, emphasizing the need for well-trained Reformed pastor-missionaries and the establishment of theological seminaries in Asia to multiply biblical leadership across unreached regions. The article supports formalization of existing theological training efforts in the Philippines, Myanmar, and India, grounding the case in biblical precedent and the PRCA Seminary's proven model of ministerial education.
I wanted to write briefly to support Prof. R. Dystra's call for the PRCA to start prayerfully planning for the future deployment of her ministers. He is, of course, correct in saying that sending pairs of missionaries is biblical, that is clear from Paul's work. Something else exemplified by Paul and which he writes about in Romans 15:20 is his ambition to preach the gospel where Christ has not been named. As someone interested in world missions for many years, I can tell you such places still...
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