WRF Member Rick Brown Describes How Homework Can Be a Missionary Activity
There is much discussion these days of what it means for churches and denominations and seminaries to be "missional."
Besically, this term simply means that, given the increasingly secular nature of American (and most other Western) culture, individuals and churches and denominations must become more intentional in reaching out with the Gospel to the people in their communities. We cannot sit back and wait for them to come to us -- we must go to them. And seminaries must become more intentional in training future church leaders with such a mindset and with the appropriate skills in doing this.
The matter is sufficiently significant that the WRF has entered into a contract with New Growth Publishers to produce a book tentatively entitled "How {and Why} To Be Missional and Reformed."
Of course, such missional efforts already exist and below is a link that will take you to a superb report on one such activity. The report was provided by WRF member Rick Brown and the church about which he writes, Calvary Presbyterian Church in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, is a congregational member of the WRF just as the denomination of which Calvary is a member (the Presbyterian Church in America) is a denominational member of the WRF.
What this really means is that, if you live anywhere near school children, you now have a model for reaching those children with the love of Jesus Christ.
http://www.wrfnet.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=20&name=DLFE-121.pdf
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