Bladestunner316
Puritan Board Doctor
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Yes.
It would be great to see a merger.
It would be great to see a merger.
Seeing as the PCA is so much larger than the OPC, would it be a true merger (meaning that some characteristics of the OPC would survive) or would it be a case of the PCA just swallowing the OPC whole to the point that, in time, it would be hard to tell that there had ever been an OPC?
It would be great to see a merger.
Seeing as the PCA is so much larger than the OPC, would it be a true merger (meaning that some characteristics of the OPC would survive) or would it be a case of the PCA just swallowing the OPC whole to the point that, in time, it would be hard to tell that there had ever been an OPC?
Well, I do only live about an hour and a half away from the DFW area, so to me those are BIG Cities!100,000, small town?
The OPC has its own problems. Why compound them with the PCA's?
The OPC has its own problems. Why compound them with the PCA's?
As an Reformed Baptist on the ARBCA side, we often tell Presbyterians that ARBCA is similar to the OPC as the Founders SBC is to the PCA. So you have piqued my curiosity in wanting to know what "problems" you're referencing about the OPC.
How much is "theonomy" a "problem" in the OPC?
How much is "theonomy" a "problem" in the OPC?
How much is "theonomy" a "problem" in the OPC?
One of our members use to live in SoCal and said that if you weren't a Theonomist then you were on the outside looking in.
How much is "theonomy" a "problem" in the OPC?
One of our members use to live in SoCal and said that if you weren't a Theonomist then you were on the outside looking in.
Is theonomy even really an "issue"?
On the whole I am concerned for the PCA. As I understand it, Covenant Seminary is producing more and more long-day creationists that fall outside of the Confession and are taking more and more exceptions to it, and it's permissible. As an outsider looking in, there seems to be some sort of status quo of complacency and there just seems to be something altogether fishy about it. I can't put my finger on what exactly what it is, perhaps because it's many things, but it seems like the PCA is becomming more and more infected with a contemporary evangelical taint that I would think was altogether foreign within a confessional, Reformed denomination.
I'm in one of the small Presbyterian denominations. We'll probably be ok as long as we don't bleed members faster than we take them on, and our existence is only so long as God has provided. The PCA need not worry about bleeding members, however, but with every member they take on, it seems as if they are sacrificing a part of their identity. With the PCA being the largest conservative Presbyterian denomination in America, that worries me terribly.
As for talk of the ARP merging with anybody, fat chance. You come argue with the ladies in my church about giving up the denomination that their great-great-great-great uncle's cousin's father was pastor in.
Is theonomy even really an "issue"?
On the whole I am concerned for the PCA. As I understand it, Covenant Seminary is producing more and more long-day creationists that fall outside of the Confession and are taking more and more exceptions to it, and it's permissible. As an outsider looking in, there seems to be some sort of status quo of complacency and there just seems to be something altogether fishy about it. I can't put my finger on what exactly what it is, perhaps because it's many things, but it seems like the PCA is becomming more and more infected with a contemporary evangelical taint that I would think was altogether foreign within a confessional, Reformed denomination.
I'm in one of the small Presbyterian denominations. We'll probably be ok as long as we don't bleed members faster than we take them on, and our existence is only so long as God has provided. The PCA need not worry about bleeding members, however, but with every member they take on, it seems as if they are sacrificing a part of their identity. With the PCA being the largest conservative Presbyterian denomination in America, that worries me terribly.
As for talk of the ARP merging with anybody, fat chance. You come argue with the ladies in my church about giving up the denomination that their great-great-great-great uncle's cousin's father was pastor in.
Every denomination has this problem. Every one. If you think the ARP is exempt from this kind of mentality, your sampling for observation is too small.
I think by far the biggest problem in the PCA (as well as in some ARP churches) is the swift movement away from Reformed, RPW-worship, to non-denominational happy-clappy praise song/solo's worship.
I think by far the biggest problem in the PCA (as well as in some ARP churches) is the swift movement away from Reformed, RPW-worship, to non-denominational happy-clappy praise song/solo's worship.
In practise though we do have differences and denominations are one way of preventing in fighting and enables us to proclaim the gospel rather than to argue internally all the time.