“Shocking! Absolutely shocking! I just can’t get over it!” That was the reaction of one who had just read parts of the 1971 Agenda for the Synod of the Christian Reformed Church. He had in mind such things as the Board of Home Missions’ proposal that the Christian Reformed Church officially participate in Project Equality; […]

In Overture 5 to the 1971 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church, Classis Chatham requests Synod to declare “that it is necessary and desirable to re-express the faith of the church in a new confession which will replace the Belgic Confession, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Canons of Dort as a statement of the truth […]