The Nose of the Camel (4)

The preceding editorials pointed out the danger that feminism enters the Reformed churches through the "soft spot" of the congregational meeting. This has taken place recently in the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands ("Liberated"). Their General Synod of Ommen 1993 decided that women should participate in the congregational meeting as voting members. In order to justify this decision in the face of the apostolic prohibition against women's ruling in the church, the Liberated synod declared...