Pastor Paul DeVries of Brookside Christian Reformed Church on the 2024 Synod re. Human Sexuality. 

Thanks, Pastor Paul for this video. It helps me as Council Chair to confirm what I know (I was a delegate) and how my church can move forward. I loved your comment (as I remember it), "When I am unsettled on an issue, I slow down. Synod '24 did not slow down..."

Thanks for your excellent overview, Paul.

Thanks for this excellent overview. As a delegate in 2022 and 2024 I may have framed a couple matters *slightly* different, but appreciate this overview. Around 15:00 though I think it's noteworthy that there is a 4th option to someone who goes through the 3 year CDG discipleship process... They might come to understand the issue online with the teachings of the church. That is the hope and prayer and the way councils should proceed. Of course there are likely and unlikely outcomes in some matters, but I would hope churches and the filers of CDG would enter in good faith to genuinely exam the issue(s) and see what God's Word says.

Also, Churches and members that have declared themselves in the "status" of those "in protest" were not automatically dissafliated. That was a minority report that went away after Committee 8 made other guidelines for disciple. In Protest churche and members were to be entered into the process of discipline... No one was dissafilated at Synod 2024.

I can say, from being on that committee, 3 years came from the normal term of office for elders and deacons. The seminary really doesn't have to do anything since they use the covenant for officebearers basically verbatim. The university is where the only real issues are occurring.

The world changes. The Church changes. Does the Bible Change?