Can a Classis Depose a Consistory? Revisited

In two recent issues of The Banner (July 18 and July 25) Editor Lester De Koster discusses this question in connection with a concrete case appealed from Classis Huron under the provisions of the CRC's Judicial Code and adjudicated by the 1980 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church. Editor De Koster acted as the Consistory's advocate in this case, under the provisions of the Judicial Code. But Classis Huron, which has suspended the Consistory, was upheld in its right to do so both by the...