Category Archives: CRC

The CRC and Its Confessions

Posted on July 4, 2014 by PaulVK

Why the CRC Needs to Figure Out What Confessions Are For How We Don’t Live Out Our Confessionality, Why it is Unintelligible and Offensive to Many, and Why We Need to Stop It Why the Church Must Have a Solid, … Continue reading →

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How We Don’t Live Out Our Confessionality, Why it is Unintelligible and Offensive to Many, and Why We Need to Stop It

Posted on July 4, 2014 by PaulVK

How does a Common Cultural North American understand a church “confession”? Tim Keller in a video on his book  Center Church talks about the common baseline assumptions North Americans have with respect to God and religion. He describes it in … Continue reading →

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Why the CRC Needs To Figure Out What Confessions Are For?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by PaulVK

The Confessional Church I’ve been doing a lot of writing on Synod and structure recently but increasingly conversations are turning towards our denomination as a confessional church. There are a number of reasons why I think this deserves more direct … Continue reading →

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Can Denomination Be Helpful When Churches Are Dying Because We Don’t Understand What Church Is For?

Posted on June 30, 2014 by PaulVK

The Wrong End of the Tree My friend Pete wrote a response to my last structure piece. He noted, and I agree, that these structure conversations are starting at the wrong end of the church. The crisis at the denominational … Continue reading →

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John Suk’s Problems in the Pew and Pulpit

Posted on June 28, 2014 by PaulVK

The Problem is in the pulpit The Problem is in the pew

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Can A Revised Structure Address Current CRC Challenges?

Posted on June 27, 2014 by PaulVK

Whose Structure For What End? Before Synod I was processing a lot of the structure material. You can find links to my ramblings on my Synod links pages. I’ve been busy since Synod doing my day job but I’ve also … Continue reading →

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John Schneider’s The Fall of Historical Adam and Eve

Posted on June 27, 2014 by PaulVK

Calvin in Common

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Why Synods Make Me Cry

Posted on June 20, 2014 by PaulVK

Synods I got home late last night after making my way across the country through the storms. In this last year it seems like every time I need to travel for Synod (or ED search) storms disrupt my air travel plans. … Continue reading →

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Left Behind or Leaving from YALT blog

Posted on June 20, 2014 by PaulVK

YALT  

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Advisors and the Collateral Benefits of Synod

Posted on June 20, 2014 by PaulVK

Ethnic Advisors The last substantive motion of CRCSynod 2014 came from the floor. The restoration of the ethnic advisors. Ethnic advisors have served Synod for a number of years due to the lack of ethnic diversity. The plan was for … Continue reading →

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