Activity of the Committee for Contact with Other Churches
This journal article documents the Protestant Reformed Churches' Committee for Contact with Other Churches and their ecumenical discussions with the United Reformed Churches beginning in 1998. The article addresses misinformation about these contacts by providing detailed accounts of conversations regarding common grace, the well-meant offer of the gospel, and covenant doctrine, while also clarifying the PRC's historical stance on denominational separations.
As most readers know, the Committee for Contact with Other Churches is one of the permanent committees of the Protestant Reformed Churches. The PRC has long recognized the importance of seeking church unity. God commands all believers to be active in this, "endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" (Eph. 4:3). The PRC, confessing the reality of the "one, holy, catholic church," pursue unity with other churches and denominations. For this work, the churches commission...
Full article available on sb.rfpa.org
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