Our Church Order (Article 10)

From a glimpse into the history of the early stages of the movement known as Reformed Protestantism, we learned that Article 10 was meant to declare that the right to decide whether a call shall be accepted or declined shall belong to the consistory with which the minister called is connected. "Het recht eener kerk," wrote the late Dr. H. Bouwman, "om het aanvaarden eener roeping te keeren, was tot aan het einde der 17e eeuw onbetwist …. In de 16e en 17e eeuw lag de beslissing feitelijk in...