Reformed Tiff Ends with Giant Conga Line

[Jerome]

After a rapprochement orchestrated by elderly Amway mogul Dick DeVos, delegates from two long-estranged Reformed denominations formed a conga line and wound their way to the Calvin College chapel for worship.

Grand Rapids press: Celebratory mood dominates historic joint session

Elizabeth Testa, a liturgist at Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, carries a cross in a procession after a joint synod session for the Reformed Church of America and the Christian Reformed Church in North America at Calvin College Thursday

Amway co-founder Richard DeVos attended Thursday’s assembly at Calvin with his wife, Helen, but did not speak

In their first joint action, delegates symbolically demonstrated support for the newly-translated Belgic Confession, Canons of Dort and Heidelberg Catechism that reduced male pronouns for God and eliminated masculine references to humankind

Delegates then formed a procession line to Calvin’s chapel for a combined worship service while singing, “We will walk with God/we will go rejoicing till the kingdom has come” to the beat of congas.

 

[TomVols]

These denominations are Reformed in name only. The fabric of their theology is far from Reformed, far from the principles of a Warfield, Berkhof, Bavinck, etc.

 

[go2church]

Kinda cool I guess, dancing as a symbol of unity