Although everything on the Agenda for the CRC Synod is significant, not every item is of equal importance. Going through the 568-page Agenda leaves me with the impression that there is one issue of supreme importance and that it should be kept clearly in focus. The purpose of these lines is to zero in on […]
It is difficult to give an appropriate title to this article. The designation “conservative” is generally accepted and in a general way better understood than more suitable terms. If there were a consensus as to the meaning of terms such as reformed, calvinistic, confessional and historic faith, these would be preferable. Lamentably, the philosophical dialectic […]
The meeting of our churches’ representatives in their annual June Synod is a significant event which the Outlook usually makes a special effort to cover. I have been asked to make a preliminary survey of the agenda for that meeting. The 568 pages of material may be looked at from various points of view. The […]
I am writing a few articles on an alarming trend in the Christian Reformed Church. What is true in my Church is hardly different from what is happening in other denominations. There is not only a departure from the Faith of the Fathers, but also a serious deterioration in the observance of the standard of […]
My copy of The Banner arrived today. As I often do, I took a couple of minutes to page through it, skimming those items which caught my eye. I was struck by the first letter in “Voices” (3/30/79 issue) in which the council of one of our churches informs the denomination that it “. . […]
The case of Dr. Allen Verhey, which was before our Christian Reformed synods two and three years ago (and ought to have been settled then) again confronts the whole denomination as it is to reappear at our next synod. Why should this matter continue to trouble the churches? What makes it worth pursuing for more […]
Editorial Note: In this contribution the Rev. Mr. Kloosterman, pastor of Immanuel Christian Reformed Church, Sheldon, Iowa. comments on the petition (gravamen) presented by Dr. Harry R. Boer to the 1977 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church. In this gravamen Boer asks the church to declare that statements in the Canons of Dort, one of […]
SYNOD REPORT UNFAIR? August 28, 1978 THE OUTLOOK Rev. Peter De Jong, Editor Dutton, MI 49511 Box 34 Dear Rev. De Jong: In the August, 1978 issue of THE OUTLOOK, page Seven, it is reported that at the Synod of 1978 I spoke of my fervent desire that the church would very soon open the […]
Rev. H. Vanden Heuvel, pastor of the Bethel Church of Sioux Center, Iowa, member of our Board and delegate to the CRC Synod, was asked to report on Synod actions for THE OUTLOOK. The Christian Reformed Synod met on the campus of Calvin College and Seminary along with four other member churches of NAPARC – […]
Every Christian Reformed Consistory member has again received a copy of the 1978 Synod Agenda. One wonders how many even of the delegates to that meeting will work through its 496 pages. To help consistory members as well as other readers to get acquainted with the synod’s coming business, THE OUTLOOK, as it has done […]