EP 45 What We Miss About Missions: Reforming Our Approach - Ft. Jerry Slate

In this episode, Jerry Slate joins the podcast to discuss his new book "Reforming World Missions: Recovering a Biblical and Confessional Missiology".

In the work of world missions, those who send missionaries are just as essential as those who are sent. William Carey famously described missionaries as those who descend into an unexplored pit, while those who support them “hold the ropes.” But if we are to hold the ropes well, we must also know the ropes. Sending churches and cross-cultural church planters alike must be grounded in a missiology that is biblically sound and confessionally robust.

Jerry's book was written to equip churches and missionaries with exactly that kind of theological clarity. Our conversation explores:

• Why confessional theology matters for missions
• The responsibility of sending churches
• The relationship between church planting and the Great Commission
• The free offer of the gospel to all nations
• What faithful missionary preparation should look like today

As the Canons of Dort remind us:

“Moreover, it is the promise of the gospel that whoever believes in Christ crucified shall not perish but have eternal life. This promise, together with the command to repent and believe, ought to be announced and declared without differentiation or discrimination to all nations and people, to whom God in his good pleasure sends the gospel.” (Canons of Dort, Second Head of Doctrine, Article 5)

May God be pleased to raise up many biblically qualified missionaries who are sent well, until the earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

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