I was wondering what your thoughts are on who should/can send a missionary/evangelist - the local church, presbytery or does it have to be a missions agency?
What are the pros and cons in your opinion?

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Sebastian Heck
PCA & yet to be founded Reformierte Kirche Deutschland
Ph.D. student at Theological Universiteit Apeldoorn/Netherlands
Church Planting in Germany
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My view (as our denom OPC does it) is that the church does the sending. That may be really at any level, so I think, but in our denom, our missionaries are ordained ministers so they are "sent" by the presbytery to which they belong, although their call to their ministry may be from a church, a presbytery, or even the denom missions committee on behalf of the total church.

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Many local churches send missionaries THROUGH agencies.

It needn't be either local church or agency - if that agency respects the place of the local church.

The local church ordains and approves, the agency acts as a servant of the local church and confirms the local church's decision and then the missionary is sent.

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