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Rev. Coleborn is a pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia. For a better understanding of our Reformed heritage, we will briefly attempt to compare the practices or church orders of the historic Continental Reformed churches as found in the Order of Dordrecht (Dordt), and the historic Reformed church (Westminster), as found in the Practice of the Church of Scotland. The Great Points of Agreement Both orders (the Scots tend to use the term “practice”) spring from common root concepts and principles. Firstly, both see that the life of the community of the saints must be ordered and arranged...

The reviewer is a minister of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia. Hyper-Calvinism and the Call of the Gospel, by David J. Engelsma. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Reformed Free Publishing Association, revised edition 1994. 216 pp. $10.95 (paper). [Reviewed by Rev. Chris Coleborn.] This book by Prof. Engelsma basically deals with the vital question, “Does the fact that the gospel of Christ Jesus is to be preached to all mankind mean that God desires and intends the salvation of all who hear that preaching, even the reprobate?” Those who hold to the well-meant offer of the gospel answer in the affirmative....

* Last year, Presbyterians celebrated the 350th anniversary of the meeting of the Westminster Assembly. This assembly produced the confessional, catechetical, and church political documents of the Presbyterian churches- the Westminster Standards. This article commemorates the historic event of the calling of the assembly. The Rev. Chris Coleborn is pastor of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Brisbane, Australia. -Ed. June the 12th, 1993, was the 350th anniversary of the calling of the Westminster Assembly of Divines. Because the work of this justly famous assembly means so much to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, as it should to any who bears the...

Rev. Coleborn is pastor of the Brisbane Congregation of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia. Brethren of the P.R.C. Synod, Thank you for the privilege of inviting me to address you. I bring Christian greetings from the E.P.C. Synod, and the prayer that the Lord would keep you in. His truth, and use you in His service in these days in which we live. Pastor Burley and I have come from a far land to observe your Synod and to address you. This is most unusual for us, and I think unusual for you too. Why is it unusual that...

Rev. Coleborn is a pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia. Part 1 of this continued article appeared in the preceding issue of the SB. Summary of the Church Order The main subjects that the Book of Discipline and the Book of Common Order dealt with are as follows:   The Officebearers of the Church   The offices of Christ’s church according to God’s Word were recognized as ministers, elders, and deacons. Two temporary offices were also allowed, to meet the abnormal situation in the Reformed Church of Scotland at that time, when there was an acute shortage of...

Rev. Coleborn is a pastor in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Australia. Introduction One of the primary documents of the Scottish Reformation is The First Book of Discipline. It is a document for the ordering of the life of the Reformed Church in Scotland drawn up at the dawn of the Reformation in Scotland. This document, together with The Book of Common Order, formed the original Church Order of the Reformed Church of Scotland in the days of John Knox. The First Book of Discipline was the work of five other Scottish reformers in addition to John Knox. Knox also,...