Racist minority enacts church capture

In its history the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) acquired brown and black members through its missionary work.

For racist reasons the church did not incorporate these members, but created the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) for the brown believers and the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) for black believers. By way of the Belhar Confession, the DRMC pointed out to the Dutch Reformed Church that, on biblical grounds, God does not allow for any distinction based on race in the church.

By uniting the DRMC and the DRCA, the Uniting Reformed Church (URC) was formed to heal the racial divides. In the 1998 court case resulting from a property dispute during the unification, the Supreme Court ruled that minority rights are enshrined and therefore, if some church members did not want to unite as churches, they have the right to keep their old name and all the property. That is why the DRCA has kept its name and its property.

This court ruling has since been incorporated into the church order of the DRC. The result is that a minority of the DRC can and has prevented the unification between the URC and the DRC.

This opposition is not argued on biblical grounds, but is forced upon the majority because the court’s ruling has given all the power into the hands of the racist minority of the DRC.

The court’s ruling has thus effectively enshrined racism and has given the minority the power to commit church capture.

The majority, who want to unite on biblical grounds, are forced not to do so by the minority who has received the right from the court to keep all the church property should the majority wish to unite.

This is spiritual blackmail. —