To the Ends of the Earth: Calvin’s Missional Vision and Legacy (Biblia.com)

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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...

grave and asked that his family, church members, and intimate friends avoid any form of memorial service so that no cult of personality might spring up around him.2 In his last will and testament, Calvin’s instructions to those at his deathbed were similarly pithy, the language unadorned: “I desire that my body after my death be interred in the usual manner, to wait for the day of the blessed resurrection.”3 Nearly 450 years after his death, historians still do not know the location of Calvin’s grave,

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