Restored Reformed Church

The Restored Reformed Church ( Dutch: Hervormde Kerk Hersteld, HHK ) is a Dutch Church Federation, which belongs to the Reformed churches. The young Church seceded from the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, after they had developed in May 2004 by the merger of the Dutch Reformed Church, the Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Many members of the Orthodox Church within organizations such as the Gereformeerde Bond in de Nederlands Hervormde Kerk and Gekrookte Riet felt the merger with the Lutherans as a violation of Calvinism and split from the new church. Later, these split-off communities merged to form a new church federation: the Restored Reformed Church.

Description

Many members of the Restored Reformed Church come from the Gereformeerde Bond and the Gekrookte Riet the Dutch Reformed Church. The local communities of the Restored Reformed Church see themselves as the heirs of the Reformation qualifier. Theologically, the relations between the Restored Reformed Church and the Christian Reformed Church are very close, at the local level there is a wide range of cooperation.

The Restored Reformed Church has 118 congregations, 61 ministers, 26 retired preacher, 2 candidates, 16 students, a missionary and two assistant preacher. In the last decade there were conflicts with the Protestant Church in the Netherlands over the ownership of many church buildings and the name of the Restored Reformed Church. Your original request to call themselves Restored Dutch Reformed Church was turned down.

The Restored Reformed Church makes her preacher from the Restored Reformed Seminary in Amsterdam. In the political sphere, many members of the Church select the state Kundig Gereformeerde Partij. The Church is missionary active in Malawi and Suriname.

Membership

The Social and Cultural plan Bureau estimates the Restored Reformed Church to 53,000 members. A first official release of the membership figures of the Restored Reformed Church itself calls in 2010 56.753 members (2014: 58 821 ). The largest municipalities are Staphorst and Ouddorp.