Paul VanderKlay

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About Me

For me the CRC has always been a place of diversity. I grew up in an urban church plant while attending Eastern Christian in New Jersey. I got my BA in History at Calvin College and an M.Div from Calvin Seminary. After Calvin I worked with Christian Reformed World Missions in the Dominican Republic. 

After the DR I took a call to the Living Stones CRC in Sacramento CA and have been busy with my buddy Kevin Adams and others helping to plant churches, do a Leadership Development Network and wreak as much havoc as I can in Classis Central CA.  I've was a member of the Board of Home Missions for almost ten years.

 

Interests

I like reading, thinking and blogging. I love visiting the amazing national parks of California with my family. 

I'm passionate about urban ministry, church planting, gospel and culture issues. 

My Topics

Type Date
Article Our Confessional Crisis
May 10, 2012
Blog post The Genesis Flood and the Gospel Narrative
April 19, 2012
Blog post Classes that Won't Seat Women
May 22, 2012
Blog post Uniting Christ's Body Through Classis
April 16, 2012
Blog post The Apostles According to National Geographic
March 15, 2012

My Comments

May 22, 2012

"Prophesy" as popularly imagined presents many barriers, both cultural and religious in our context. 

1. Antagonism from moderns and some postmoderns

2. Skepticism from...

May 22, 2012

Thanks for your loving persistance with this Bev. I'll post a couple of responses:

Of course there is no "office" of prophet like there is of elder, deacon and minister of the...

May 17, 2012

Nice post Phil. Glad to see you haven't left us as orphans. I certainly want to keep you in the loop. :) pvk

May 14, 2012

On my personal blog I created a page of links to blog posts on this debate that I've discovered to date. You can find the post here: ...

May 10, 2012

Thanks Jeff for your comment. 

When I talk about confessional growth and development you're very much on the same page with your metaphor. In the Karin Maag article she pretty...

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