Protestant Reformed Missions, Small Beginnings: Mission Methods Established (1925-1931) (3)
This article examines the early domestic mission methods and scope established by the Protestant Reformed Churches between 1925-1931, focusing on how Rev. Herman Hoeksema and other church leaders responded to requests from Christian Reformed members sympathetic to Reformed doctrine over common grace. Bruinsma documents how the nascent denomination's missionary work was shaped organically by pastoral necessity rather than predetermined mission principles, particularly through the 1925 decision authorizing Hoeksema's westward missionary journey.
Previous article in this series: May 1, 2015, p. 352. During the early formative years of the Protestant Reformed Churches, certain methods of domestic mission work became well established. It is important that we take note of these methods and offer an evaluation of them. We begin, however, not with a method of missions, but with the historically established scope of our domestic mission work. At the very start the three ministers and the elders of the Protesting Christian Reformed Churches...
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