Schism and Scattering (Rev. A. Lanning)

Prof. David J. Engelsma published the following article this month in response to two editorials in Reformed Pavilion. The editorials instructed and warned those former members of the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) and the Reformed Protestant Churches (RPC) who are currently joining the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) and the United Reformed Churches (URC) that the OPC and the URC hold to the Arminian doctrine of the well-meant offer of the gospel. In response to those editorials, Professor Engelsma published the following article blaming the undersigned for the exodus of Protestant Reformed members to the OPC and to the URC. The heart of Professor Engelsma’s article is the charge that the undersigned committed the condemnable sin of schism in the Protestant Reformed Churches and that my schism in the PRC has had the lingering effect today of scattering the sheep and the lambs of the PRC into other churches.

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