CRCNA Synod 2024 Update 4 | Tuesday, June 18

Reverends Wagenmaker and Parsels are back this year as the official Abide Project Synod Reporters!
Synod continues with its work as they gathered in the chapel at Calvin University. Today they heard from ecumenical partners, continued to work through gravamen report, and discussed ecclesiastical relations with the RCA.
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[@wendt152]

Thank you for the update guys. We're going to try to attend after work again tonight 😊

[@joshc2501]

Speaking of the RCA relationship. Do you two see a possibility of the Alliance of Reformed Chrurches merging with the Christian Reformed Church because of Unity on the human sexuality issue? It'd be a suitable replacement for the unity with the RCA

[@patcavanaugh429]

You probably will have cake and celebrate tonight as well with your Abide friends. The rest of us will be in tears because we are losing so many wonderful Christians who have served the church so faithfully.

[@lloydhemstreet3226]

Alliance is a new and developing body, and there is certainly much we agree with them on, yet other items where we are not as well meshed together. I think that there are ARC churches (as well as RCA churches) that will join and become full CRC churches in the next 2-5 years, and there will also be many Alliance churches that will work well together with CRC in local contexts.

[@patcavanaugh429]

Yes, why don't you join the alliance and let the rest of us have our church back, a church known for ever transforming and reforming and exhibiting just how wide and high and deep is the love of Jesus? Jesus is our gatekeeper of the sheepfold. Worshipping doctrine and basing our salvation on the doctrines of our faith minimizes the grace of our Savior and puts too much pride in our efforts and decisions.

[@lloydhemstreet3226]

@@patcavanaugh429, why would 75% of the denomination leave?

[@patcavanaugh429]

Yes, 75 per cent of the delegates to Synod who we know were intentionally members or sympathetic to Abide would leave and they would have their followers. But I am probably twice your age and have many friends in churches across the states and even Canada who pay no attention to Synod and are just busy with loving and serving the Lord in their church families and communities. Their faith is not threatened by what other church councils do and think. If Abide established their own denomination, you could be assured of having your pure church where everyone thinks the same way and your faith wouldn't be threatened. You could have your own seminary and college to train everyone to think with Abide instead of trying to infiltrate Calvin's and the Seminary 's boards to cleanse those institutions. Your group would be very happy to have your pure church and the rest of us could continue to be a hospital for sinners as the true CRC, an ever reforming and transforming people who love the Lord and seek to evidence the fruits of the Spirit, whose faith is not threatened by divergent thought. Both sides would be happy instead of the sadness we witnessed from both groups at Synod. Abide would also be evidencing the Fruits of the Spirit to the outside world and that Light could draw more people to Jesus instead of driving them away.

[@maryragagni4080]

What would Jesus do? He did not send anyone away.

[@relentlessburrito]

***confused Mark 10 and Matthew 25 noises***