Sodom and Gomorrah invade Zion
This article critiques the Christian Reformed Church's 2019 Synod report on human sexuality, which the author views as compromising biblical standards on gender and sexuality. Spriensma documents the CRC's decades-long deliberation on these issues and expresses concern about the denomination's openness to LGBTQ+ perspectives, framing it as a conflict between worldly ideology and faithful biblical teaching.
The 2019 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) received the interim report of a committee of ten individuals that was tasked to write a "theology of human sexuality." This is a committee that was appointed at Synod 2016 "to articulate a foundation-laying biblical theology that pays particular attention to biblical conceptions of gender and sexuality" (Acts of Synod 2016, pp. 917-19). A final report is to come before the Synod of the CRC in 2021. The reason for coming to Synod 2019 was...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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