Summary of Convention Debate

Debates are fun for those who take part in them and for those who listen to them. And the debate to which we listened on Thursday morning at the Convention of our Young People was a very interesting one. Shirley and Ruth Dykstra upheld the affirmative on the question, “Resolved: that doctrinal controversy is advantageous for the Church of God,” while the negative was maintained by John Bos and Herm Woudenberg. The first affirmative defined the terms doctrine, controversy, and advantageous....