Apostasy (1): Who the Apostate Is

Apostasy (1): Who the Apostate Is

The text of Hebrews 10:26-29 is a warning against apostasy. In fact, the epistle to the Hebrews contains many pointed warnings against apostasy. Indeed, it contains some of the most chilling, most frightening, and most sobering passages of the New Testament on the subject of apostasy. In a number of blog posts I intend to explain and apply these warnings against apostasy. 
Gleanings in the Church Order (4): The Right to (Protest and) Appeal

Gleanings in the Church Order (4): The Right to (Protest and) Appeal

Article 31 speaks of appeals, but a member may bring three kinds of matters to a major assembly under Article 31: a protest, an appeal, or an overture.
Gleanings in the Church Order (3): Legality at the Assemblies

Gleanings in the Church Order (3): Legality at the Assemblies

Perhaps one of the least understood matters in the Church Order is legality at the broader (or major—not higher) assemblies of classis and synod. Assuming that the matter is ecclesiastical in nature and manner, what may and may not be treated at classis or synod?

Gleanings in the Church Order (2): The Assemblies

Gleanings in the Church Order (2): The Assemblies

An assembly, specifically an ecclesiastical assembly, is a gathering of officebearers. The church order does not have in mind here the gathering of the whole congregation for worship or for some other activity. Those assemblies are, of course, very important. Nevertheless, the assemblies of Articles 29-52 are the assemblies of officebearers for official ecclesiastical business. The church order speaks of three assemblies: the consistory, the classis, and the synod.
Gleanings in the Church Order (1): The Offices

Gleanings in the Church Order (1): The Offices

For many the Church Order is a dull, unexciting document. At first glance, it seems to be a book of interest to none but elders, deacons, and pastors. But the church order is necessary because God requires that his church be orderly. Paul writes, “Let all things be done decently and in order” (1 Cor. 14:40). That really is the motto text behind the church order: we do not want anarchy, chaos, or disorder in the congregation; we want order and peace. To another congregation Paul writes that he “[rejoices] and [beholds] [their] order” (Col. 2:5). To another he writes to warn against “every brother that walketh disorderly” (2 Thess. 3:6, 11).

Order in the church is important, therefore.

Grace Conferred (7): God's Promised Blessing

Grace Conferred (7): God's Promised Blessing

The duty that the Canons have in mind is the duty of preaching and the duty of listening and taking heed to the gospel with its admonitions (and never forget that the preaching comes also to the preacher; he not only preaches to the congregation, but he also preaches to himself). The word duty (officium) could be translated as office, but its meaning is wider than that.
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