How God’s Chastening Affects Our Celebration
Pastor Daniel Holstege reflects on the Protestant Reformed Churches' internal upheaval over the past decade, particularly the 2016-2021 doctrinal controversy regarding works-righteousness that led to the deposition of a prominent pastor and a significant denominational split. The article examines how ecclesiastical conflict and divine chastening have affected the PRC's self-understanding and corporate witness, offering a firsthand account of one of the most consequential events in modern PRC history.
A lot has happened in the Protestant Reformed Churches since the last major anniversary celebration in the year 2000. I was a teenager attending the Protestant Reformed Young People's Convention at Calvin College, just down the road from where I grew up, when the 75th anniversary was celebrated at the same time on the same campus. As a young person at that time, I believed that the PRC were the purest manifestation of the true church in this world and other churches were apostatizing. I thought...
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