The Mars Hill/Mark Driscoll debacle is well known. Many have listened to Christianity Today’s excellent podcast series The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. The fall of Mars Hill is but another incident in a long series of scandals plaguing American evangelicalism. Why do such things happen over and overContinue Reading
Presbyterians sometimes say, partially tongue-in-cheek, that Acts 15 records the church’s first “general assembly”. In some ways, however, this council was unlike later church councils and later denominations’ annual (or regular) synods and assemblies. First, this council did not have representative elders from the churches that had been established byContinue Reading
The mission of planting the Reformed Church Southern Suburbs by the Reformed Church Bellville is in response to Christ’s Great Commission given in Matthew 28 to proclaim the gospel and disciple the nations. We believe that there is a need in the southern suburbs of Cape Town for another churchContinue Reading