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Do I Matter?
In this article, I write about a trend I've seen in my role supporting classis renewal. It’s a trend of feeling like we don’t count, and by “we,” I mean pretty much everyone.
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March 11, 2018
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10 Ways to Grow a Church Planting Movement in Your Classis
Classis plays a key role in CRC church planting. Here are ten ways you can contribute to a church planting movement.
November 1, 2016
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Six Principles for Leading Adaptive Work
Renewing or changing a classis is not easy work. Classes, in their present form, have been hundreds of years in the making. How do a few people create change in this type of environment?
July 14, 2014
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Using a Journey Wall for Classis Renewal
A journey wall is a congregation wide experience in which a congregation posts their memories of positive and challenging experiences with the church, puts their story into chapters and then looks for repeated patterns across the life of the church.
May 9, 2012
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Our Confessional Crisis
The question of adopting the Belhar as a confession as finally giving our confessional heritage some much-needed attention.
February 21, 2011
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Looking Back, Seeing Forward
In this paper, Craig Van Gelder examines the history and the current context of classes. He encourages the reader to take a look and begin to engage church polity as it interacts with classes.
January 17, 2011
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Classis: Past, Present, Future
The classis of our past was a good classis if it was a faithful classis. The classis of the present has to be, at the very least, a responsive classis—it has to respond in some way to the changes impacting our corporate church life. What does a responsive classis in the CRC look like today? And what about the future of classis?
January 17, 2011
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Developing a Vision in Classis
Every classis has a vision or at least expectations about what a classis is all about. What does a common vision do?
January 17, 2011
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Ideas for Praying at Classis
Many of us may know this to be true but making prayer a greater part of a classis meeting can be daunting. Where do you start? Doug Kamstra, in his “Classical Prayer Leader’s Resources” binder gives a few ways of getting started praying at Classis.
December 14, 2010
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Synod: Our Family Reunion
This article is an attempt to share the experience of a relative newcomer moving from the margins to the mainstream—or to be more precise, moving from the balcony to the main stage.
December 13, 2010
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Reinventing the Judicatory in an Unthinkable World
Judicatories come in all shapes and sizes. They also come in many different forms, each with names that come out of a tradition. We know them through such names: diocese, regions, conferences, presbyteries, and districts. How does one reinvent a judicatory shaped by programs and seek to provide resources to transform it into a mission agency?
December 13, 2010
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The Story of the CRC Classical Renewal Ministry Team
In reviewing the history of the CRMT coming out of the task force for the Role of Classis in the 21st Century, the adjectives that come to mind are spontaneous, determined, slow progress, peer learning, learning from each other and leading experts in church change, and from the CRMT representatives who met with classical leaders.