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To the Ends of the Earth: Calvin’s Missional Vision and Legacy is unavailable, but you can change that!

Calvinist missionaries. If you think that sounds like an oxymoron, you’re not alone. Yet a close look at John Calvin’s life and writings reveals a man who was passionate about the spread of the gospel and the salvation of sinners. From training pastors at his Genevan Academy to sending missionaries to the jungles of Brazil, Calvin consistently sought to encourage and equip Christians to take...

God gather churches unto himself from all parts of the earth,” Calvin maintained.12 But if God knows everything, why pray? The answer is that much as preaching serves as God’s chosen means to enlighten, convict, and draw the unconverted, Calvin viewed prayer as another means by which God applies grace in the redemption of those outside his salvific grace. Prayer does not so much change God, but it is a factor that God has ordained to be a part of the salvation of his elect people. Bruce A. Ware summarizes
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