Synod '08

The CRCNA Synod will begin meeting Friday, June 13 at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and run until Saturday, June 21. Please keep the delegates and all the deliberations in your prayers. The focus of attention by many is on what will happen with the status of the Form of Subscription (a.k.a. Doctrinal Covenant of Office-Bearers) - and more importantly, the confessional/biblical foundation of the CRC. Also, this is the first year women will be seated as delegates - a matter to be kept in your prayers as well. There are certainly many more issues that need our prayers. You can keep up-to-date on the schedule and happenings - even watch a live web-cast beginning the first Saturday of Synod - by clicking here.

More FOS Overtures

It looks like the discussion over the proposed revision of the Form of Subscription is going on all over the CRC. This is wonderful and a vast majority of the overtures and communcations coming out of the churches and classes demonstrate a strong desire to maintain confession unity in the CRC. Keep in prayer for the delegates of Synod this summer as they deliberate over this (as well as many other matters).

All of the overtures that we have posted previously have been compiled, along with some others, in the Agenda for Synod 2008. Go to page 235 for the study committee report and 288 for the first of the overtures.

Additional overtures and communications have been submitted after the printing of the agenda. They can be seen by clicking here. The overtures begin on page 69.

Other updates and additions will probably be posted. Those can be found by periodically checking here. Also, for some of the other response letters sent by church councils, scroll through previous posts on this blog.