A Fourth Mark of the Church?
Synod just voted on R17. Despite several attempts at ammendment, the vote was on the original recommendation:
To instruct the Commission on Theology, in conversation with the General Synod professors of theology, to engage in a study of the historic “marks” of the church, as articulated in the RCA Standards and in light of missional understandings of the gospel, and to consider recommendation of the addition of a fourth “mark of the church, for report to the General Synod no later than 2010.
Results? R-17 passed.
There will be some kind of study on the marks of the church. Wow! Could be VERY interesting! It’s possible that we could be powerfully engaged, in the next years, with a true study of ecclesiology. Maybe the RCA will begin re-engaging our standards!
Grace and Peace,
`tim
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