Whose is the Work of Missions? (1)
Barry Gritters examines a longstanding debate within the Protestant Reformed Churches regarding the locus of responsibility for missionary work: whether it belongs to individual local congregations or to the denomination through its synodical committees. The article seeks to clarify the PRC's official position on this question and traces the historical roots of the two divergent views, aiming to resolve tensions that have threatened denominational unity in the mission enterprise.
If there are questions about denominational unity in worship (see the last two editorials), there are as many questions and difficulties regarding the denomination's unity in missions. Two divergent views of missions and their relationship to the denomination exist in the Protestant Reformed Churches, views that reflect two minds that existed even before the formation of the PRC. One of these views is right, the other wrong. The question is: Whose is the work of missions? Is it the local...
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