The PRCA and the true/false church (4)
Rev. Joshua Engelsma applies the Reformed doctrine of the true/false church distinction to the Protestant Reformed Churches themselves, examining whether the PRCA qualify as true churches according to the three traditional marks. This article is the fourth in a series that surveys biblical and historical Reformed ecclesiology before assessing the PRCA's faithfulness in gospel preaching and adherence to Reformed church standards.
In the previous three editorials in this series, I set forth generally the distinction between the true church and the false church. The first editorial established the proper view of the distinction from the Belgic Confession and the Scriptures. The second editorial surveyed the history of Reformed churches generally and of the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRCA) specifically to show that this view of the distinction was maintained in Reformed orthodoxy. The third editorial drew out some of...
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