This overture asking for the rejection of the familiar Report 44 on “The Nature and Extent of Biblical Authority” does not appear in the Agenda for Synod. The writer, Mr. Tom Spriensma, is an elder at the Christian Reformed Church of Jamestown, Michigan. Having studied the 1972 Synod decision to adopt Report 44 on “The […]

  I was an elder delegate at the 1985 Synod. Some of the important questions that came to my mind were: Why is there division in our denomination? What is the cause? Why so much confusion? Is there perhaps a lack of knowledge of God’s Word? Is God’s Word too difficult or unclear? Are we […]