In preparing for talk I need to give I hauled out my CRC Church History notes from maybe 1989-1990? Jim De Jong, then president of CTS was giving the class. On the first day he gave a list of theological emphases of the CRCNA. In my scribbling (I have terrible hand writing) I find this list. It’s a good list still fresh today.

• Theocentricity: Glory of God and sovereignty of God
• Deep corporate and systematic view of sin
• Pervasive work of the Holy Spirit in Creation and Redemption
• Personal and Communal Renewal
• Unity of Scripture
• Covenantal Nature of the Christian Life
• Kingdom as comprehensive present and future reality
• Healthy emphasis on the role of the magistrate (state)
• The Confessional Church
• Liturgically simple, coherent and rooted in Scripture
• Educated and Official Leadership
• Culturally Transformationalist