Category: Reformed Standards
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Catechism
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian Genesis 18:19 The fourth component of the covenanted uniformity called for by the Solemn League and Covenant was catechism. The rationale was that catechism was the link between the pulpit and the home and is the divinely appointed means for perpetuating the faith from one generation to the…
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Regulated Worship
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian Acts 2:42 From the outset of the Reformation, Calvin wrote that the first concern of the Reformed church was worship. One hundred years later, in the 1640’s, the Westminster Assembly formulated a Directory for Public Worship which affirmed the regulative principle and its application in a series of…
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Presbyterian Church Government, part 3: Synods
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian Acts 15:1-29 When teachers came down from Judea to Antioch and started teaching that Gentiles had to be circumcised in order to be saved, it set off a a firestorm of controversy. The presbytery of Antioch met to analyze this new teaching, but the heated debate did not…
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Presbyterian Church Government, part 2: Session and Presbytery
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian 1 Timothy 4:14 Presbyterian church government is rule in the church by elders. The elders are organized in courts (the session, the presbytery and the Synod) to which is committed the power of governing the church and of ordaining officers. This power is moral and spiritual, and subject…
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Presbyterian Church Government, part 1
Series: What It Means To Be Reformed Presbyterian Ephesians 4:10-12 The Solemn League and Covenant entered into and signed by both England and Scotland in 1643 called for a specific kind of government which was Biblical, according to the best reformed churches on the continent, and most likely to secure the peace of the church. Such…