These Are Exciting Times—Agenda for Synod 2013
This editorial by Russell Dykstra previews the agenda for the 1975 PRC Synod, with particular focus on the domestic missions work in Pittsburgh under Rev. Bruinsma. Dykstra highlights the challenges and opportunities facing modern missionary work in an increasingly secular society, emphasizing the church's ongoing calling to preach the gospel to all people regardless of their ecclesiastical background or prior knowledge of Reformed theology.
The title of this editorial is lifted from a report to the Synod of the Protestant Reformed Churches set to meet in June of 2013. The full sentence reads: "These are exciting times, and God has given us also a powerful way to extend our distinctive message to the ends of the earth." The report happens to be that of the Reformed Witness Hour Committee, but the clause could have appeared in any number of reports to synod. It captured what I felt as I read the agenda of synod. Excitement. Let...
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