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Prescription for Church Renewal?

Herewith is the review by Rev. Peter De Jong, pastor of the Dutton (Mich.) Christian Reformed Church, of the 255-page book, Will All the King’s Men . . . (Out of Concern for the Church Phase II) including essays by James H. Olthuis, Hendrik Hart, John Van Dyk, Arnold De Graaff, Calvin Seerveld, Bernard Zylstra, […]

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Key 73 – A Failure?

In the June 15 Church Herald, Peter Paulsen, from his vantage point in one of the promotional offices of the Reformed Church of America, ventures to express a few of his observations on Key 73. “Key 73, the much heralded, year-long program of continent-wide evangelistic endeavors,” Paulsen writes, “is now half over.” While the reports […]

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Pressure Points in the CRC Agenda

The winds of change are blowing. Also in the CRC. Because in the CRC also one innovation follows upon another. By this time even the most dyed-in-the-wool conservative must have become at least somewhat shockproof. Because finally one becomes at least a bit numbed by repeated efforts to update and to restructure the church, to […]

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Rev. Peter De Jong, pastor of the Christian Reformed Church of Dutton, Michigan, evaluates items on Synod’s Agenda dealing with the relations between the Christian Reformed Church and the Reformed Church in America. These items are found on pages 187–188, 585, 593, and 600 in Agenda for Synod 1973. The History – One hundred and […]

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Agenda for Synod 1972

It is with some hesitation that one attempts, on necessarily very short acquaintance, to formulate some editorial reactions to our massive 500 page Agenda for the June Synod of the Christian Reformed Churches. Revised Report on Biblical Authority The biggest and most important issue the Synod will have to face is that introduced by the […]

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Parkinson’s Law in the Church

I have repeatedly chuckled over reading C. Northcote Parkinson’s book, Parkinson’s Law. In it he describes the almost automatic growth in the number of personnel in various kinds of administrative structures of government at an average rate of 5.75% per year regardless of whether the actual work load is increasing, decreasing or totally non-existent! I […]

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The Issue of Authority in our Reformed Churches Today

“The problem of authority is the most fundamental problem that the Christian Church ever faces. This is because Christianity is built on truth: that is to say, on the content of a divine revelation. Christianity announces salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, in and through whom that revelation came to completion; but faith in Jesus […]

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Viewpoint

McCLELLAN In Bruce Catton’s fascinating civil war histories (This Hallowed Ground and Mr. Lincoln’s Army) a general who gets an unusual amount of attention is George B. McClellan. A good administrator who knew how to dramatize army service and to inspire loyalty in his men, he seemed to have everything that was needed to make […]

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One would hardly look to the Saturday Evening Post as the place to Bod a diagnosis of the ills of the Church. And yet an article in its November 17, 1962 issue entitled “Why I Quit the Ministry” in an unusually blunt and concrete fashion offers such an analysis. THE INDICTMENT It is in the context of […]

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