Still Non-Functional

In an editorial in our November 15, 1981 issue I criticized the Editor of The Banner for editorially decreeing that articles 27-29 of the Belgic Confession are non-functional in the Christian Reformed Church. Literally he wrote: "And the kind of thinking about the church that is recorded in the Belgic Confession is no longer functional in the Christian Reformed Church." I suggested that this was contrary to the Formula of Subscription as well as contrary to the adopted gravamen procedure of...