Jake
Puritan Board Senior
The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Canada was formed last week. Some information here: https://rpccanada.org/
What I can gather is:
What I can gather is:
- This was done as a desire to have a national body rather than a regional body of the church.
- Interestingly, most NAPARC denominations including my own have congregations in both US and Canada.
- All current RPCNA congregations in Canada went into the new group, as well as one church that was part of the APCoS
- They have a new Constitution, which more closely follows the original Westminster Standards. They take as a denomination a couple of exceptions/clarifications (on the Civil Government issue and specifically they only allow 6 24 hour creation days without a gap) and only allow two exceptions from the Westminster Standards (on Pope as the antichrist and the consanguinity issue).
- Ottawa Theological Hall is being restarted for the training of ministers
- They have my favorite logo of any denomination.
- They are able to use the national motto of Canada, taken from Psalm 72, as their magazine title ("Sea to Sea")
- They seem a bit small to be a separate denomination. I hope that doesn't cause any issues, but I understand the why.
- It seems RP denominations part of the RP Global Alliance cooperate well together so hopefully this will mean they are not too separated from their other RP brethren. I think ARPs did not do as good of a job at this when the ARP Synod of Mexico separated from the ARP Synod of North America (US and Canada).