Hello all. I've benefited from the conversation on PB for some time and finally decided that it was time to take the plunge. My wife and I have been on a journey towards the Reformed faith for some time and we're finally on the verge of actually joining a confessional Reformed church. She grew up in the United Methodist Church, although it seemed more Southern Baptist. I grew up in the American Baptist Churches. We're now both members of an evangelical American Baptist congregation out here and for a while we considered ourselves Reformed Baptists. However, Baptists, I'm sorry to inform you that just recently that began to change. We're only Baptist by church membership now, not conviction.

It was mainly a combination of reading classic covenant theology, Pierre Marcel's brilliant little book, Meredith Kline's works, some WSCAL guys' writings, and talking to a good friend in the RCUS that finally did it. I finally waved the white flag of surrender (my wife says she's been humoring me all along). At this point, I feel that I can fully subscribe the Three Forms of Unity. We're looking to move back to Kansas City at the end of this summer and are planning to join a local RCUS congregation. It's been a crazy ride for us so far in just under a year of married life. We've moved across the country once already and once we got here, I ended up withdrawing from my Baptist seminary. We're pretty worn out, but I guess it's better to work out this stuff now rather than thirty years down the line.

I'm looking forward to finding out more about the confessional Reformed denominations from you all. The board has already been quite a boon to us in several ways so far (thanks for the pocket psalter info, Kaalvenist!).

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Bryan Peters,
First Baptist Church, ABC-USA
Conshohocken, PA
Three Forms of Unity (moving to RCUS soon)

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we trust Him; the greater be our progress in theology, the simpler and more childlike will be our faith.
~J. Gresham Machen~