Have the Elders Learned their Lesson?

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat its mistakes. If there was ever a time for us to take these words to heart, it is now. For those who have left the Canadian Reformed Church and are now setting their house in order there is no better time to set the right course in the present for the future by considering past mistakes.

Church Order: ''Love organized and spelled out''

Sometimes it seems that our idea of church unity bears a frightening similarity to the world's idea of marital unity. Just as the world has exchanged the glory and the wonder of true marriage for an altered and impoverished substitute, maybe we have exchanged the glory and the wonder of true church unity for some sentimental and vague substitute. The federative relationship does bear similarity to marriage, at least in some of its aspects.