The Peculiar Office (3)

The officebearer is an organ of the congregation; the tasks constituting it are in the first instance those of the brotherhood. These views, it was found, have the firm support of Scripture and of the Forms of the ordination of officebearers. Before proceeding to a new phase of our subject, we wish to establish that the views we present were those of John Calvin. We quote: "[DUTCH REMOVED]". (Heyns, Kybernetiek, p. 114). The conviction cannot be escaped that the above comment was written in a...