Why Are the Protestant Reformed Churches Distinctive?

The Protestant Reformed Churches in America are distinct from other Christian churches, even other Reformed churches. This is well known to many scholars and leaders, not to mention lay people, in the church community at large. This distinctiveness is comprehensive in scope. We are distinctive in doctrine -- holding to the truths of the sovereign grace of God (often referred to as the five points of Calvinism), believing that the grace of God is particular and not common, that the covenant of...