Reformed Church in America

This happened on February 1978 in Holland, Michigan.

He was a student at Hope College in Michigan, which was organized by the Reformed Church of America.

It's 30 miles north of north of South Haven, 76 miles south of Ludington and Baldwin, that cluster area that I talked about earlier.

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They believe in the pr- real presence, but they have a different theory about how it works.

Um, traditional Reformed Christians, that would be Presbyterians, Dutch Reformed, Reformed Church of America, you know, uh, this, the, the, the, the, well, think Puritanism, okay? That tradition, uh, on paper believes in the doctrine of the real presence in the sense that they believe that when believers, true believers, receive the Eucharist, they have a, to quote Calvin, "A substantial partaking in the body and blood of our Lord." So that, that's pretty real presency there.

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A substantial partaking in the body and blood of the Lord.

A book of this nature will be needed so long as young people confess Christ as their Lord and Savior.

It is our humble and happy task to command The Sacrifice of Praise in its second and carefully revised edition to our churches, especially to the Reformed Church in America.

We can do this most cheerfully because it is our personal conviction that Dr. H. Bavinck was, by the grace of God, the prince of recent Reformed theologians.

Among the three above named, he easily holds first place for depth of thought and accurate research.

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So I got to talk to, uh, two women, Deepika, who is connected to the Vellore Christian Medical College, and Kelly, um, who's a coordinator for marketing and communications for the Reformed Church of America, um, Global Mission.

And these two women were sharing about the life of Dr. Ida Scudder.

And, uh, Dr. Ida served in India.

a division in the Netherlands in the 19th century.

And so you have sort of the Reformed Church in America.

Their theological training tended to be quite a bit more neo-Orthodox.

They were quite a bit more mainline.

A book of this nature will be needed so long as young people confess Christ as their Lord and Savior.

It is our humble and happy task to command the sacrifice of praise in its second and carefully revised edition to our churches, especially to the Reformed Church in America.

We can do this most cheerfully because it is our personal conviction that Dr. H. Bavinick was, by the grace of God, the prince of recent reformed theologians among the three above named he easily holds first place for depth of thought and accurate research his scholarly attainments were indeed rare as abundantly shown by the copious quotations and references in his reformed dogmatics and other works this book is of an intensely practical nature the subject as the headings of the twelve chapters indicate is confession We do not hesitate to say that in practical church life there is still considerable misunderstanding as to confessing Christ.

Ministers and elders frequently hear such questions as these.

Dr. Ortiz's award-winning teaching feature courses on the mysteries of Christianity, church history, the theology of the human person, and early Christianity.

And he recently co-authored a commentary on the Nicene Creed, which I personally recommend, and is currently researching the rule of St. Benedict.

He's a member of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church here in Holland and is married to novelist Rhonda Ortiz.

And together they have six children.

Welcome to the show, Jared.

So I was hired 13 years ago to be the Catholic guy at Hope College.

Hope College was a denominational school for a long time.

Reformed Church of America.