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There is more of a parity between ruling and teaching elders in the PCA.
1) The OPC tends to debate things to death . Just a couple of items we got caught up in included: whether we could have a choir (and if so where would it be positioned in the church); Psalter or Hymnal; wine or grape juice (or both) for communion (note - this topic almost caused a couple of people to leave our church)...
1) The OPC tends to debate things to death . Just a couple of items we got caught up in included: whether we could have a choir (and if so where would it be positioned in the church); Psalter or Hymnal; wine or grape juice (or both) for communion (note - this topic almost caused a couple of people to leave our church)...
Some of these questions are debated because of a higher regard for the Regulative Principle in the OPC.
Thanks. I understand "why" the debates occured, I was just commenting on our experience... I probably should have been more gracious as to the "reasons" for the discussions than I wrote...
The OPC BCO is also in a very nice clothbound book. Quite convenient and well-conceived.
An the PCA would go broke as frequently the BCO is modified and a new clothbound book would be needed.
Andrew, brother, I write as a great admirer of the ARP. My chief mentor was one of its most visible ministers. But, you are naive if you think the ARP is unaffected by the current controversy. Witness one of your primary seminary prof's unreserved testimonial to Norman Shepherd on the back cover of the Call of Grace, and then look at some of his other writings.
To say the OPC is similiarly immune is also false.
We all have this problem, and we all have to deal with it.