Reformed Missions: Voetius, the Scottish Missionary Movement and the Great Commission

1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

   • Reformed Missions and Evangelism (Christ the Center) Eric Watkins 42 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Harvest OPC, San Marcos, California; director of the Center for Missions and Evangelism, Mid-America Reformed Seminary American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
   • Reformed Evangelism (Christ the Center) Paul Murphy and Eric Watkins 73 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Messiah's Reformed Fellowship (URCNA), New York; Mid-America Reformed Seminary American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
   • Theological Education in Foreign Missions (Christ the Center) Douglas Clawson, Charles Jackson and a missionary named 'Mike' on the page 70 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Committee on Foreign Missions (Clawson: associate general secretary; Jackson: missionary in Uganda) Affiliation could not be confirmed this session (the WebSearch budget was exhausted and the institutional pages probed did not state it). Kept only in history or supplementary roles; confirm before any doctrinal use.
   • Engaging Missions through the Life of John G. Paton (Christ the Center) Chad Vegas 80 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source History Sovereign Grace Church, Bakersfield, California (founding pastor since 2006) and Radius International (founding board member), per the Radius International... Founding pastor of Sovereign Grace Church, Bakersfield (confirmed on the Radius International page); not a subscriber to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms (a Reformed Baptist congregation, from general knowledge). History role only, affiliation shown on the page; the unit rests on Paton's autobiography...

   Total: 4.4 hours

2. Reading Read in the order given. Public-domain and free texts are linked; purchases are optional and never required.

   • Mission Policies of the Historic Presbyterian and Reformed Churches (Ordained Servant, January 2026) Michael M. (surname abbreviated as printed on the page); OPC minister and foreign missionary for more than twenty years Open source Doctrinal 2026. Free online
   • Gisberti Voetii Tractatus selecti de politica ecclesiastica (1885), Tractatus I: De prima plantatione et collectione ecclesiarum; Caput II: De missionibus ecclesiasticis Gisbertus Voetius Caput II 'De Missionibus Ecclesiasticis' is pp. 322-348 and Caput I 'De Plantatione et Plantatoribus Ecclesiarum' is pp. 293-316, per the printed contents; 798 scanned pages in all Open source Primary text 1885 edition of a 17th-century work. Public domain
   • Seven Lessons for Missionaries from the Ministry of John Paton Gregory E. Reynolds Open source Doctrinal 2011. Free online American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
   • John G. Paton, Missionary to the New Hebrides: An Autobiography John G. Paton, edited by James Paton 430 scanned pages (archive.org) Open source History 1889. Public domain Founding pastor of Sovereign Grace Church, Bakersfield (confirmed on the Radius International page); not a subscriber to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms (a Reformed Baptist congregation, from general knowledge). History role only, affiliation shown on the page; the unit rests on Paton's autobiography...
   • Vindication of the Church of Scotland's India Missions (1837) Alexander Duff 58 scanned pages (archive.org) Open source Primary text 1837. Public domain
   • The Life of Alexander Duff George Smith 588 scanned pages (archive.org, one volume; the work is two volumes) Open source History 1879. Public domain
   • Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa David Livingstone 544 scanned pages (archive.org) Open source Source studied 1899 reprint (first edition 1857). Public domain
   • Holy Zeal and Missionary Endeavor (sermon, 1788) John Love Open source Primary text 1788. Free online

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 30 pages on a topic drawn from the lectures and readings of this course. Argue from Scripture, the Westminster Standards (1647 text) and the Three Forms of Unity, cite the primary sources you read, and state the points on which the sources differ.

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Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.