Rev. Arent de Graaf, pastor of the Reformed Church of Box Hill, Victoria, Australia, has kindly complied with THE OUTLOOKS request to furnish the information in this article concerning recent developments in the relations of the Reformed Churches in Australia to their mother church in the Netherlands (the GKN or the Reformed Churches in the […]

From the very beginning of the Reformed churches existence in Australia and New Zealand, the proper observance of the Lord’s Day has been a focal problem. I recall that when I arrived in Australia in 1958, local discussions on the subject were numerous but in few instances were they productive. Sermons on Lord’s Day 38 […]

In recent years the Lord’s Day has given rise to the “problem of the Sabbath-Sunday in Australasia.” Much discussion has evolved in Australia and New Zealand on the relationship between the Old Testament Sabbath and the New Testament Lord’s Day. The character of the Lord’s Day—is it a day of rest and worship or is it basically only […]