The following documents and posts represent a variety of perspectives on the proposed amendments. We will refer to them during our conversation in the afternoon session on Wednesday, November 2.
- Mid-Hudson Classis’s Q&A
- Notes from Albany Classis on the Proposed “Order for Christian Marriage”
- Albany Synod FAQ
- Dan Griswold’s blog post on the GS16 decisions
- Howard Moths’s “Comments on the Proposed 2016 General Synod Constitutional Changes”
- Matt Draffen’s “Marriage, the Church, and the Bible”
- Room for All’s Statement
- Paul Janssen’s treatment of the proposed amendments
If you want to download all of these articles with one click (except for my blog post), here is a zip file
Dan
Addendum:
I am grateful to Aaron Schulte for providing the following list of links to documents referenced ihttp://images.rca.org/docs/mgs/2013MGS-Theology.pdfn the above Aids and FAQs:
- “Constitutionality” in The Reformed Church in America”, from the 2013 report of the Commission on Theology
- Commission on Church Order’s 2014 statement on the authority of General Synod on doctrine and interpretation of Scripture
- Church Order’s response on the directive to include in the BCO a definition of marriage
- “The Word Became Flesh”, from the Theology Commission’s 2015 report
- The RCA Page describing the actions taken by General Synod concerning homosexuality
- The study guide on homosexuality published in 1998
