The Report of the Committee of the Synod of 1924 on the Question “Can A Classis Depose A Consistory?”: The Report Continued

We must carefully distinguish here. The independence of believers is not encroached upon when the office of believers is regarded as non-institutional in character! We must carefully distinguish here. The independence of believers is not encroached upon when the office of believers is regarded as non-institutional in character! Only there, where the office does not yet exist and also because of circumstances it cannot be instituted by virtue of the ecclesiastical federation (according to the...