The PRCA and the true/false church (1)
Joshua Engelsma addresses the escalating ecclesiastical controversy within the PRCA by examining how former members have shifted from accusing the denomination of "apostatizing" to declaring it a "false church" comparable to Rome and Satanic cults. The article explores the theological and practical implications of distinguishing between apostatizing and apostate churches, particularly as it relates to the proper understanding of the true and false church in Reformed ecclesiology. This resource documents an important moment of doctrinal controversy and church discipline within the PRCA's recent history.
The issue Members of the Protestant Reformed Churches in America (PRCA) are thinking about and discussing doctrinal truths with renewed fervency. This is one of the good fruits of the controversy through which the Lord Jesus is bringing us. God's people have been focusing primarily on truths related to soteriology (the doctrine of salvation), which has been the specific realm of the doctrinal controversy. But there has also been renewed interest in ecclesiology (the doctrine of the church)....
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