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In Calvin’s Institutes he says the following…

Book 4, 3.4
[Apostles, prophets, evangelists]…were not established in the Church as permanent ones, but only for that time during which churches were to be erected where none existed before, or where they were to be carried over from Moses to Christ. Still, I do not deny that the Lord has sometimes at a later period raised up apostles…as has happened in our own day. For there was need for such persons to lead the church back from the rebellion of Antichrist.

In the first part of Calvin’s statement we see him saying that the office of apostle was meant to lay the foundation of the church. In the later part he seems to be saying that when the church is under such a rebellion of Antichrist that it has lost this foundation.

However, in Book 4, 2.11 he says…
[God] did not allow his church either to be destroyed to the very foundations by Antichrist or to be leveled to the ground…he let it undergo frightful shaking and shattering, but…willed that a half-demolished building remain.

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Good article on Church Voting over on The Reformed Puritan

I am a little upset with Crossway Publishers.
I love the ESV and have recommended it to many people. We even made it our official church Bible.
When they were talking about the 2007 revsion of the ESV they said that they would give a list of the revisions to anyone who asked.
Then they told me personally that they would email me the list of revisions.
Well, then they informed me that at an executive management meeting they decided not to release such a list.

… let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation. (Jam 5:12)

… each tree is known by its own fruit…(Luk 6:44)

This is from his Institutes…

…all those who spurn the spiritual food, divinely extended to them through the hand of the church, deserve to perish in famine and hunger.

[God] provides for our weakness in that he prefers to address us in human fashion through interpreters in order to draw us to himself, rather than to thunder at us and drive us away.

…although God’s power is not bound to outward means, he has nonetheless bound us to this ordinary manner of teaching.

Is the church God’s appointed means of educating the saints? And if so, what place does that put seminaries in? Should there be a direct connection between seminaries and churches?