This is a public forum to share ideas, ask questions, and reflect on being a pastor in the CRC.
Vibrant
Amy
Pastor Church 
Staci
Phillip 
We’ve all had moments where we’ve empathetically suffered with others to the point where it really did feel like we’d suffered the loss ourselves. What if Jesus empathized like this all the time?
I understand that seminaries cannot fully teach all of God’s truth in all of the scientific spheres to their students. But by choosing to focus solely/primarily on just one or two of God’s revelatory spheres – the Bible and church tradition – are they not risking a ‘closed shuttered’ isolationism that could lead to idolatry?
What if the Christian Reformed Church is meant to be a church that connects the Jesus of the bible to the resurrected Jesus today? What if our calling is to tie what he said then to what he’s saying now?
Van Gogh once wrote, “I prefer painting people’s eyes to cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is not in the cathedral, however solemn and imposing the latter may be – a human soul, be it that of a poor beggar or of a street walker, is more interesting to me.” I will never forget the day I experienced Van Gogh’s truth for myself.