Welcome once again to the conversation and is that matter podcast. I'm your

host Sean Harris. Well many of you know the last week was the Southern

Baptist Convention and I did a number of videos on what took place at the Southern Baptist Convention, I think three of them at least, and a lot of the audience I think are a good portion are Southern Baptist or were Southern Baptist but obviously the Southern Baptist are not the only

denomination out there they may be the largest Protestant denomination in the United States but there are areas of this

country where they have significantly less influence and there are other

Protestant denominations with a whole lot more influence.

And one of the denominations that I know we talked about it last year and they have their convention around the same time or I don't think they

call it a convention but their annual meeting is the CRC the Christian Reform Church.

And they're very influential especially in Michigan and the Grand Rapids area, but also in parts of Canada, in the Midwest.

And they represent a certain stream of the Dutch reform tradition.

And they had their meeting, and some of the same issues that have been

coming up in these other denominations like the Presbyterian Church in America and

the Southern Baptists are also coming up in the CRC and so to help me report on this,

we're gonna show you some clips,

and you can make up your own mind,

but to help interpret this,

we have Pastor Lloyd Hemstreet,

who is a pastor at Coopersville Christian Reform Church in Michigan.

He's also he works with the Abide Project which is kind of like for those who don't know

like the Gospel Reformation Network or the conservative Baptist network

it's the more conservative group in the CRC and he has volunteered to help us

understand what's going on so thank you so much for joining us,

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