Paragraph 3 of Chapter 26 of our 1689 Confession begins by saying that the purest churches under heaven are subject to mixture and error. In other words, our Confession is acknowledging that even the best of churches, with the finest and most godly of people, still may not come to understand or clearly discern their full responsibilities before God and in relation to men. And if they can discern them, they are not always consistent and thorough in carrying them out. So there will, as long as the world stands, be enough sin, and weakness, and remaining corruption even in godly men, that there may be some error and some mixture of maturity and immaturity in their midst. Why is this? It is because there is so much to learn from the Bible, so much truth to grow up into, and so much laziness and lack of diligence in studying the word and applying to ourselves what we know so that we practically live it out in a life of godliness; this is the reason for this statement
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
