The 1976 Agenda for Synod (CRC Synod meeting June 8 to 18) is a volume of 541 pages. It may seem presumptuous of me to attempt to say what the basic issue at this Synod will be—but I feel conscience-bound to take that risk and to attempt to do so. The basic issue at this […]

(June 6 is Pentecost Sunday) “And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30 To grieve someone means to injure or to harm, to try, or to occasion grief to someone. There is no doubt but that on the human level of interpersonal relationships, […]

Dr. Leonard Greenway, pastor of the Riverside Christian Reformed Church of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is in charge of Our Question Box. This department is for everyone. No signatures are required and no names are published. Although we are happy about the popularity of this department, we regret that, due to all the questions now on […]

Rev. John H. Piersma is pastor of the Bethany Christian Reformed Church of South Holland, Illinois. His article deals with the teaching of Reprobation as this is found in the Doctrinal Standards of the CRC, and with a communication from Dr. Harry Boer about this, to be considered at Synod. This matter may be found […]

The 1976 CRC Synod is to begin its sessions Tuesday morning, June 8, at 9:00 a.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Knollcrest Campus of Calvin College. An Agenda of 541 pages sets forth the matters calling for action. We are indebted to Rev. Peter De Jong, pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of […]

Rev. John Kruis is pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of Sussex, New Jersey. In view of the U.S. Bicentennial, he was asked to write on W hat the Reformed Faith Should Mean to the U.S. “Let us not now vainly imagine,” says Rev. Kruis, “that we can best serve our nation by circumventing the […]

Dr. W. Robert Godfrey is Assistant Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Broomall, Trinity Christian Reformed Church. In this first article, Dr. Godfrey writes about “the theological climate which gave birth to the Canons.” In a second article, he plans to consider the Synod […]

Rev. John Blankespoor is pastor of the Pine Creek Christian Reformed Church of Holland, Michigan. He writes: “In more recent times, the decree of reprobation has been brought into question—in the Netherlands, but also in America and in the Christian Reformed Churches as well.” It is to this matter that he addresses himself in this article. […]

Dr. Boer’s Proposal – Professor Harry R. Boer tells us plainly without any double-talk, that the time has come for us to discard once and for all the notion that there is an “infallible” or “inerrant” Bible. His attack on an infallible Scripture is found in the March 1976 Reformed Journal in an article entitled […]

There was one item that I did not touch on in my previous articles concerning the Form of Subscription (cf. the April and May ’75 issues). That is the matter of reprobation as taught in the Canons of Dort. Both Boer and Vriend referred to it in their plea for a revision of the Form […]