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"Federal Vision: Heresy at the Root": Interviews with Don Veitch
Looking for something theological to do for an hour or two this weekend? Check out this set of YouTube interviews from February and March of 2023, in which author David Engelsma and host Don Veitch dive into Federal Vision: Heresy at the Root (2012).The links to those interviews and to the book featured in the discussion are included below.
"The Issue With Kuyper's Common Grace": Podcast And Video
On March 13, author David Engelsma was featured on the podcast "Conversations That Matter" to explain the heart of his book Christianizing the World, Kuyper's doctrine of "Common Grace," and its impact on modern evangelicalism. The links to that podcast and to the book featured in the discussion are included below.
The Binding Decisions of a Reformed Synod
It cannot be said that Protestant Reformed people are wrapped up in the annual meeting of synod. Unless there is a case of special interest to the churches, visitors at synod are few. Seldom is the church building packed at the worship service with which synod begins. It is doubtful that the members wait with bated breath for the decisions of synod in the Acts.
Nevertheless, it lives in the congregations that synod is an important part of our church life. There is understanding that synod settles matters of dispute in the churches. The churches carry out the decisions of synod that bear on the denominational life. Consistories and individuals submit to decisions of synod with which they themselves are in disagreement. It is accepted that synod’s decisions will be considered settled and binding by all the consistories and by all the members.
This is as it should be. This is healthy. This is Reformed. The broader assembly of the churches, synod now in particular, is the necessary expression of the unity of the church of Christ. In keeping with the purpose of the unity of the church, synod serves for the mutual help of the congregations and represents the cooperative labor of all the churches of the denomination on behalf of Christ their common Head.
Reformed Church Order: Law of Christ
The life and labor of the Protestant Reformed Churches are regulated by a church order. This is the church order adopted for Reformed churches by the Synod of Dordt, 1618-19.
The church order is law for the churches. It is the authoritative standard to which both consistories and church members must conform. There are sanctions for the unruly and disobedient. The member who handles sin in the congregation by broadcasting it from the housetop, or over the telephone, rather than following the way prescribed in Articles 71-74 of the church order, will himself be disciplined. The minister who publicly agitates against the decision of his consistory will be censured for schism. The elder who is “captious and . . . vehement in speaking” at classis will be silenced and, if need require, disciplined by the president of the assembly. The consistory that refuses to submit to a decision of synod will be set outside the union of the churches of Christ.
I Remember Herman Hoeksema
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