Church Extension, Church Reformation, and Domestic Missions (3)
Wilbur Bruinsma examines the Presbyterian Reformed Churches' domestic mission philosophy by analyzing the constitutional statement on church extension and church reformation. The article clarifies how these two concepts relate to each other—with church extension as the goal and church reformation as the means—while questioning whether commitment to reformation work might hinder evangelistic outreach to the unchurched and unbelievers.
Previous article in this series: March 1, 2014, p. 256. In this article we continue to examine one of the paragraphs of the preamble to the constitution of the Domestic Mission Committee of the Protestant Reformed Churches. That paragraph reads: We believe that this missionary activity includes the work of church extension and church reformation, as well as the task of carrying out the Gospel to the unchurched and heathen. However, we are convinced that our present duty lies primarily in the...
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