A Letter From New Jersey

Rev. H.C. Hoeksema Editor of The Standard Bearer Dear Brother in Christ: As a true Calvinist committed to our Reformed faith, I am deeply disturbed by what happened at the 1968 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church meeting at Grand Rapids, Michigan this June. Its decisions were characterized by (1) increased compromise on doctrinal defection; and (2) increased ecumenical and social involvement. In the area of doctrinal defection there was a refusal to make doctrinal pronouncements and the...