Preaching in missions
Rev. Wilbur Bruinsma, pastor of the Pittsburgh Protestant Reformed Church, draws from his personal missionary experience in Jamaica, Ghana, India, the Philippines, and the United States to discuss the nature and practice of preaching on the mission field. He emphasizes that missionary preaching is the official proclamation of God's Word through ordained office and must consist of faithful exposition rather than social work or moral platitudes, grounding this calling in the church's mandate to preach the gospel to all creatures.
Rather than addressing the subject of preaching on the mission field from an abstract point of view, I intend in this article to exemplify what I write by using some of my experiences on the mission field both in a foreign country and in the United States. Though I have preached in several third world countries (Ghana, India, and the Philippines), I can best draw from my labors for several years on the island of Jamaica. Likewise, though I have preached in several different cities in the U.S.,...
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