Notice of Upcoming Evangelism Lecture

The evangelism committee of First Reformed Protestant Church invites you to a lecture to be held on January 22, 2026, titled “God’s Work of Reformation.” More details regarding time and location will be forthcoming.

In 2021 God began a work of reformation by forming his church anew. The reformation began at Byron Center Protestant Reformed Church on January 19, 2021, with the Act of Separation, by which two elders and three deacons separated from the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) and called her members to come out of her and to flee from the coming destruction. Two days later members of the Protestant Reformed Churches gathered to sign the Act, and God formed his church anew. The Act set off an ecclesiastical firestorm. Protestant Reformed ministers gave numerous lectures, penned articles, and delivered sermons to assure her members that what was contained in the Act were not doctrinal differences but the ragings of troublemakers and schismatics. The Protestant Reformed Churches and her ministers declared “peace, peace” when there was no peace. The peace that the PRC enjoys now is not the peace of justification by faith alone, but it is the peace of dead men lying in a graveyard.

The Act is short and declarative in nature. It was not meant to be a full proof of all the false doctrine that then ravaged the denomination. The charge that came was that the Act did not prove itself in its statements. In response to that charge, work was begun on a document titled Annotations on the Act of Separation to demonstrate the assertions made in the Act and to prove, minister by minister, the PRC’s corruption of the gospel in her preaching and writing. This thirty-four-page document was never finished and published. This lecture intends to follow the spirit of the Annotations and prove how the PRC has corrupted the gospel far past what the Annotations had considered up to that point. The lie in the Protestant Reformed Churches has far developed and advanced in tandem with the development of the truth in the Reformed Protestant Churches. The divide, which appeared to be small five years ago, has been shown to be an infinite gulf of disparity.

This lecture is for the members of the Protestant Reformed Churches. The object of this lecture is you and your children. Are you troubled by the state of the PRC? By her doctrine? By what is preached off the pulpits in the denomination? Do you shudder when you hear that certain activities of man are necessary for blessings of God? Are you troubled by the man-centered preaching that is all about what you must do and not about what Christ has done for you and in you?

The man-centered theology of the PRC is hopeless, soul-crushing, and comfortless. But God-first theology is comforting, liberating, and glorious. It is the preaching and teaching of God’s eternal, sovereign counsel, that he infallibly carries out, by his power and according to his will, the salvation of his elect and the damnation of the reprobate. God does not justify good, repentant, or obedient people. He justifies ungodly sinners. It is this doctrine that the Reformed Protestant Churches declares, and it is this doctrine alone that is “the happiness of man” (Belgic Confession 23). Being justified by faith alone without the activities of man, the sinner is at peace in his heart and life with the living God.

The Lord Jesus Christ stands outside the doors of the PRC and knocks. He calls to his people, “Come out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing.”