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I've actually been wracking my brain for a fair way to characterize the differences but each time I come up with an idea I realize I could come up with an OPC or PCA that I know of that "breaks the rule" I'm thinking about. This is tough.
In broad categories, on the whole the OPC is a bit more conservative. The PCA is likely to have large congregations that are not strictly Reformed with people who are Presbyterian in the South because they've always been Presbyterian.
OPC congregations are typically pretty small. The OPC is about 1/10th the size of the PCA.
Maybe a good characterization is that being in the OPC is like being in a small town as opposed to a city - more likely to know your neighbors but also likely to be sometimes wary of strangers. The city dwellers may be too busy to get to know each other and too big for the leaders to keep good tabs on the goings on.
Again, these are broad brush strokes.
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