Recent articles in the secular press have unmasked the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches.1 Their support of terrorism and marxist ideology is now more than ever openly exposed. For a long time they have trampled the Gospel of Jesus Christ underfoot, but at last even the lethargic members of many […]

New Protest Marches In our Reformed circles here in North America, we shall, no doubt soon, be hearing pleas that we join in the peace and disarmament movements which are already so vocal in Europe. All throughout Western Europe the fall of 1981 was marked by large scale protest marches against the NATO Alliance and […]

October 25, 1985 In the past few months I received two anonymous letters. Generally anonymous letters are bitter, spiteful, and brimming with hate. Their writers are often filled with (self) righteousness but lacking in personal responsibility. That is why, as a rule, ministers wince when they receive such missives, especially if they suspect the author […]

“Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?” (Amos 3:3 ASV). “No church shall in any way lord it over another church, and no office-bearer shall lord it over another office-bearer” (Art. 95 Church Order). Varieties of Churc h Polity In his excellent Systematic Theology, Prof. L. Berkhof reviewed a number of systems of church […]