Forgive me for posting off subject, but I am sick of small Reformed denominations like this. I was looking at one the other day who broke off of one of the main Presbyterian denominations because they didn't like their understanding of 'common grace.' This is garbage.

On the RPNA website:
[quote:25f7f34b69]No sincere Christian can be content with 'agreeing to disagree' with his brother, when the Spirit of God beseeches us to "all speak the same thing". That great cloud of witnesses pledged, by God's grace, not to be divided from this blessed union by any or persuasion, or to give themselves over to a "detestable indifference or neutrality in this cause which so much concerneth the glory of God".[/quote:25f7f34b69]

How much must they "agree" and "speak the same thing?" We can "never agree to disagree?" There is a level of tolerance that the Church indeed [i:25f7f34b69]can[/i:25f7f34b69] sustain, that is if we are EVER going to be unified. I believe most of these denominations are guilty of snobbery.

From their history page:
[quote:25f7f34b69]unhappy with their existing ecclesiastical connections[/quote:25f7f34b69]

"Unhappy?" There is a certain amount of patience that we are to endure. It is an impossibility to agree on every principle of religion.

This kind of stuff is the precise reason why I would never join a denomination like this.

Paul

[Edited on 6-7-2004 by rembrandt]