Retirement of Ministers / About Vaccinations
This journal article presents two distinct discussions: a debate about whether the PRC should encourage early retirement of ministers to accommodate seminary graduates, with both correspondents agreeing that ministerial calling should continue as long as men are able to serve; and an incomplete article beginning to address vaccines as a spiritual and moral question. The resource offers practical ecclesiological reflection on church polity and pastoral ministry within the Reformed tradition.
I am writing in response to the editorial of Professor Dykstra in the June issue of the Standard Bearer. In this editorial, Professor Dykstra states that, given a goodly number of graduates from the seminary in a couple of years, Lord willing, and very few openings in the churches, "one option is to push ministers in their low to mid-sixties into early retirement? (Vol. 91, No. 17, 390). …The church order makes no provision for early retirement of ministers. They may seek emeritation when they...
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