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Three faithful office bearers—pastor, elder, and deacon—along with several families, have separated themselves from Crete Protestant Reformed Church with the signing of an Act of Separation and Reformation. This came in response to the unrighteous suspension of Rev. Langerak. A letter was read yesterday in PR churches explaining this separation.   Announcements of this natureContinue reading “Separation (Protestant Reformed Churches)(PRC)”

One thing has been true over the last five years. Classis East has consistently been wrong on the doctrinal issue plaguing the PRC. This is evidenced by how many times they have had to declare they “erred.” But the real question is not whether they have admitted error. The question is, are they sorry forContinue reading “Repentance (Protestant Reformed Churches)(PRC)”

The Protestant Reformed Churches have a discipline problem. They discipline the righteous. The announcement on Sunday morning regarding the suspension of Rev. Nathan Langerak brings up a few questions. Ask yourself, why is it, that of all the ministers who have been forced out of the PRC in the last four years, the teacher ofContinue reading “City to City (Protestant Reformed Churches)(PRC)”

Pressure from the rest of the denomination started months before the deposition. It started with Byron’s response to COVID. Although some in the church world are now giving good, godly advice in articles and books about the proper response to COVID, early on that was not the case. As churches, the PRC floundered. It wasn’tContinue reading “COVID (Protestant Reformed Churches) (PRC)”

Rev. Lanning was deposed, we are told, because he did not follow the church-orderly way of protest and appeal. It was not doctrine! It was behavior! What exactly did he do that warranted the charge of schism? Rev. Lanning was deposed because he was said to have charged men with sin from the pulpit ratherContinue reading “Hypocrisy (Protestant Reformed Churches) (PRC)”

Imagine you are a deacon. You sit down for a meeting, and you find there is just one motion on the agenda: “The committee recommends that we swindle the elderly members of our congregation out of their life savings.” You protest. You plead. You warn. You argue as strenuously as you know how. To noContinue reading “Relief of Duties (Protestant Reformed Churches) (PRC)”

The division that just took place was doctrinal. That is denied by many. It often is in the history of church reformation. Take J. Gresham Machen’s suspension, for example. “Was Dr. Machen’s trial a fair one? Ecclesiastical lawyers maintain that no question of doctrine is involved. In the more adequate view there are doctrinal differencesContinue reading “True Faith (Protestant Reformed Churches) (PRC)”

What I have laid out, to this point, is the corruption that took place in the deposition of Rev. Lanning. But corruption is not a reason to separate from a denomination of churches. Despising the word of God is such a reason. It is the only reason. What the church visitors said about the preaching,Continue reading “Preaching (Protestant Reformed Churches) (PRC)”

“Can Rev. Lanning explain why he doesn’t want to use the assemblies?” This was one of the first questions a delegate put to Rev. Lanning at the recent meeting of Classis East. This question reflected the popular opinion of the day: Rev. Lanning refuses to follow the church orderly way of protest and appeal asContinue reading “Article 31 (Protestant Reformed Churches) (PRC)”

The church visitors could have helped Byron’s consistory. Instead, they used us. The church visitors wanted Rev. Lanning off the pulpit, but they knew they had to work through a consistory to get that done. How convenient that Byron’s consistory called them in for help. At our regular church visitation earlier in the year, theContinue reading “Article 14 (Protestant Reformed Churches) (PRC)”