Updating and Refining the 1689 Baptist Confession: Affirming the Church’s Mission to the World

Evangelistic outreach and missions is of prime importance to the church. But neither the WCF nor the 1689 gives adequate expression and emphasis to the church’s responsibility to take the gospel to all the nations. The chapter “Of the church” (WCF, ch. 25; 1689, ch. 26), is an exposition of the nature of the church universal and local, its authority, its institution, its membership, its government, its worship, and its fraternal relations. But the chapter offers no clear and comprehensive summary of the church’s duty to publish the gospel outside the four walls of its sanctuary. Read more