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The covenant of God and our mission to the world (8): Motivated by God’s covenant to evangelize

Daniel Holstege·2022-09-16
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Rev. Daniel Holstege argues that a proper understanding and warm embrace of God's covenant theology should motivate Protestant Reformed believers toward evangelism and missions work. The article challenges the common Reformed tendency to associate covenant exclusively with church families and children, demonstrating instead how covenant understanding can fuel missional zeal for reaching the lost world.

Does the title of this article seem strange?1 This will be my last article on the covenant and missions. Since the Lord has called me from the Philippine mission field back into an established church in North America, this will also be my last article for this rubric. So to conclude both this series and my writing on missions in the Standard Bearer for the foreseeable future, I would like to face the matter of our motivation to evangelize. Evangelization is chiefly the preaching of the gospel...

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Author
Daniel Holstege
Date

2022-09-16

Source
Standard Bearer
Scripture References
Ephesians 2:12
Genesis 17:4-5
Psalms
Psalms 67:3-4Psalms 127:3
Acts 2:39
Deuteronomy 6:7
Proverbs 22:6
Ezekiel 16:1-8
Topics
Covenant TheologyMissionsSovereign Grace
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