Fellowship with Other Church Members
This article critiques a denominational leader's editorial call for personal fellowship with members of other Reformed churches, arguing that such interpersonal communion contradicts the PRC's official refusal to maintain formal ecumenical relations with churches that deny key doctrinal positions on common grace and the well-meant offer. The author raises the practical and theological tension between individual Christian friendships and denominational doctrinal boundaries.
In the spirit of "iron sharpening iron," there is a statement in Prof. Gritters' October 1, 2015 editorial that I would like you to clarify. Near the end of the editorial you wrote, "We will commit ourselves to living among the people of God who are members of the church" -- first of our own congregation; then of our denomination; and "so too the church members who are closest to our denomination in confession and walk" (emphasis added, AJC). It is this last phrase that I would like you to...
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