The Reconciliation of Repentant Sinners

Part of the elders' care of the people of God involves supervising the reconciliation of repentant sinners with God and His church. In distinction from Article 73 of The Church Order of the Protestant Reformed Churches, which speaks of the reconciliation of private sins, Article 75 speaks of "The reconciliation of all such sins as are of their nature of a public character, or have become public because the admonition of the church was despised." The article reads as follows, The reconciliation...