If there are questions about denominational unity in worship (see the last two editorials), there are as many questions and difficulties regarding the denomination’s unity in missions. Two divergent views of missions and their relationship to the denomination exist in the Protestant Reformed Churches, views that reflect two minds that existed even before the formation of the PRC. One of these views is right, the other wrong. The question is: Whose is the work of missions? Is it the local congregation’s, or is it the denomination’s? To focus the question: may a local congregation ever do mission work without the...