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The RCA allows the local church a great deal of autonomy while the CRC is a corporation with a strictly developed hierarchy of priorities in a federated system. Delegates determined to work together, however, to produce church educational materials, teacher training, family festivals, youth organi
Introduction Observing what is going on around us in the church world can often be a very depressing exercise. Usually what "makes the news" is the kind of event that gives evidence of appalling apostasy in the church. Therefore, we often take note of the worst events that are taking place in denom
So the RCA, you could say, could be considered a sister church, not technically, but a sister church to the state reformed church in the Netherlands. In fact, all the way until 1792, the RCA was technically part of the Netherlands state reformed church. In 1792, however, the RCA gained its own
Robert D. Decker is professor of New Testament and Practical Theology in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. The Reformed Church in America We continue our report on the 180th General Synod of the Reformed Church in America (RCA). In addition to its decisions concerning relations with several Luther
The above report indicates how far the RCA has drifted from its original mooring. Its statement that they "reject the perception that AIDS . . . is in any . . . discernible sense the judgment of God" reminds one of a blind person rejecting the perception that a sunset is of indescribable beauty. One