What is the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)?
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- The PCA is the second largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States and the largest confessional Presbyterian denomination there. We're going to dig into the Westminster confession, the church's BCO and website, and find out what PCA Presbyterians believe.
As a PCA ruling elder, thank you for a very well documented video explaining the denomination accurately. It is rare to find something so balanced these days.
He has a conservative bias so it’s only expected that he’d cover conservative denominations in a better, authentic light
They use the term ,"Evangelical in theor own definition. The PCUSA is not Evangelical. Most ministers see themselves as main line Protestant and not evangelical.
@@daviddeulofeuiantunez7712 why do you say this? He seems to cover both fairly quoting from each denominations sources directly not his own interpretation.
So glad to have a literal PCA Elder on here!
Would you guys self-identify as Evangelical as Pew classifies you? I grew up Missouri Synod Lutheran and still thought of us as Mainline Protestant but just conservative. Definitely not Evangelical, which I associated more with low church.
I attended service at a local pca church last Sunday and I loved it. I’m excited to go again this Sunday. After studying my Bible and exploring several different denominations I think I’ve finally found the church for me.
Pca is a fake religion as all of protestantism is. Because it has no Ecclesiastical Authority. To do so would mean that it was inspired and instructed by Jesus Christ which makes Jesus contradict Himself since The One Holy Cath Church is Inspired and instructed because it began with, by, and from, the Apostles. So, in this case, there are two Churches Inspired and instructed by Jesus Christ, which contradict each other. The problem is, is Jesus lying by inspiring and instructing two opposing Churches or truth be known that one of the churches is lying, claiming to be God inspired. Logic dictates that the Pca, like all other deceptive protestant religions, is lying because it did not begin from the Apostles who were inspired and instructed by Jesus Christ. Therefore, only the Catholic Church is the Church that the Apostles began who were inspired and instructed by Jesus Christ
Six month check in. How is it going? I grew up in both non-denom and the episcopal church. In recent years after having children my wife and I fell in love with reformed theology and have called the PCA our denomination ever since.
@@UnderMyPalm I became a member a couple weeks ago. My family and I love it. Great people and great worship. The pastor preaches the gospel so clearly. The weekly bible study is excellent. I kind of feel like I’m not good enough for this church.
@Beefcake1982 None of the pastors preaching is valid. None of it is true, and the pastor does not have Ecclesiastical Authority that Jesus gave to the Apostles in John chapter 20 vrs 21-23 it is with, by, and from, the Apostles that the Catholic Church began as they were inspired and instructed by Jesus Christ. Jesus will not and can not create another religion to save anyone. If He did, He would contradict Himself by contradicting the scriptures. Because this is a fact, then everything else is a lie.
@@Beefcake1982 that is music to my ears bro. Merry Christmas!
Thank you for this video. I'm from Brazil. I'm a Brazilian Presbyterian Church ruling elder. May God bless our brothers in Christ in USA.
You have an admirable way of bring the beliefs of other church's out in an unbiased way. I'm Catholic myself, but I have since childhood, been interested in the beliefs and practices of others. I find your way of presentation to be very good because there is no opinion and no bias. You are very informative. You would be a very good newscaster as opposed to the opinionated newsman of today. You give just the facts and no personal feelings. Good job !!!!
Thank you Duane, I appreciate it!
I find it quite disingenuous to not discuss that the PCA was formed in the civil rights era by those in the then southern Presbyterian denomination, the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS), who were segregationists and saw the PCUS efforts against racism as being too liberal.
@@mirandak3273while it’s true that the PCA was founded by Southern Presbyterians who were segregationists, I’ve looked for, and failed to find, any contemporary documentation showing that desegregation was a catalyst for the split (as you tended to find both pro and anti segregationists among both the liberal and conservative movements back then). The only two catalysts for the split, as far as I can find, we’re rejection of inerrancy and ordination of women.
@@mirandak3273 Not to be rude but I don't see why that would matter today.
Please make a video about the Orthodox Presbyterian Church/Westminster Seminary
I’m a proud PCA member! I love your videos, you expertly explain our beliefs without judgement, thank you so much (especially when it comes to Calvinism)
These videos are so richly narrated. Thanks so much for all you work.
Glad to hear it Bren!
I am loving these factual programs! Becoming more familiar with different lines of the family!
Joshua, I’d love to see a video perhaps comparing PCA, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, and the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
I definitely will make more Presbyterian comparison videos. Probably in 2022
As a PCA teaching elder, I must say that you have done a commendable job summarizing our views. This material could be quite helpful for our TE's and RE's to view as a brief reminder.
Being an Independent Particular Baptist it is always amazing how closely, yet how differently, we stand on issues.
But we preach the same Jesus, and the same gospel so we are brothers and sisters in Christ.
We love having our Baptist brothers over for scotch and cigars on the first Friday of the month. I pray you are well brother.
Such interesting analysis and information!
Thank you so much for this video!
I am a Roman Catholic researching everything I can about the Presbyterian Church, and as Mr. Michael Hampton said, you explained this PERFECTLY and it really is hard to find a video like this without them pushing there beliefs on you, or saying how wrong and evil there beliefs are. God Bless!
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I was fortunate enough to attend the very first general assembly, when PCA was established as its own denomination. I was there representing women in the church. I remember it well. My parents and grandparents were parents were pastors in the, what my grandparents called, “The Old United Presbyterian Church”, before the Southern Presbyterian church. I was blessed to have a firm foundation.
There are Presbyterians who will proudly display the logo of their PCUSA or PCA affiliation in signage and Sunday worship bulletins. I noticed that many Presbyterian churches who are silent on their specific denomination membership, which seemed odd to me. I was attending one Presbyterian church that switched denominations during my time there without notice to the general congregation. On church websites, while statements of what they believe are easy to find, denominational affiliation is buried in an obscured corner.
Can you do a video on 1689 confessional reformed baptist churches?
If you are taking requests, could do videos on the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the Free Methodist Church? Thanks.
Where did you get the background in the first slide?
Is that 10th press Philadelphia in the thumbnail photo? We had the chance to worship with our brothers and sisters at 10th earlier this month. I was the music director at Trinity Church Central Oahu for a few wonderful years.
Tim Keller should review that creation statement
Have you compared the various Presbyterian churches?
Thanks!
I appreciate that, Gabe!
Is this a picture of tge sanctuary of 10 th Presbyterian Church of Phila.?
The PCA adopted the Nashville statement, which rejects homosexuality…
yeah, they dont mess with lgbtq stuff. exception being intersex people who they basically let decide who they wanna be
I'm gay but I also may not want all the social issue stuff in church and pretty moderate but wonder if a local PCA church would be comfortable with that? I like the services from either church but what seems to differ is the theological positions.
@@bluewaves2539 PCA people are encouraged to not identify their same sex attraction as formational but as a sin tendency that they confess and asked to be delivered from as they confess theor need for Christ.
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Hi! Can you do a study of the International Presbyterian Church (IPC), the one by Francis Shaeffer?
Francis Schaeffer was a member of a PCA church while studying at Wesminster Seminary in the 1960',s
@@johntobey1558 The PCA did not exist in the 1960's. It was begun in 1973. Schaeffer was a member of the RPCES (Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Synod) which joined the PCA in 1982. Maybe that is what you were thinking.
This thumbnail looks very similar to a Moravian church on the English Wikipedia page.
Thumbnail is Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.
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I always had this question. But ready to harvest what do you believe in or do you believe in God? Sorry If its too personal of a question but I've always been curious to ask
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This "question " makes absolutely NO sense.
To be more accurate, you should include that there are different versions of the Westminster Confession of Faith. Official PCA was the 1790 version like OPC did. For some reason, PCA removed that version part recently...
PCA is Calvinist as they follow the Westminster Confession.
Correct.
Does the PCA have a closed communion?
The answer is no if you are a believer. The table is open to those that are a member of a Bible believing church (including baptized in most, but not all congregations). You are not required to be a member of the PCA to partake communion in a PCA congregation.
@@codywheeler9914 thanks Cody. What qualifies as a bible believing church? All churches believe in the Bible, but interpretations of the Bible vary significantly…
@@billmartin3561 yes, you are correct, that does sound very ambiguous! The term “Bible believing” would mean that the Bible is the sole, authoritative source for revelation from God, and that it is rightly preached (for example: no heretical teachings like name-it-claim-it, modalism, etc.), and even belief in the inerrancy of scripture. Differences like Calvinism vs Arminianism and dispensational vs covenantal are typically regarded as secondary issues. I hope that helps! 🙂
How about the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
I wonder where in the Bible it talks about the gifts of the spirit ceasing later?
All I know are the passages where the apostles tell other disciples in many churches to eagerly desire spiritual gifts and pray for them
You forgot the most important part. Their logo looks like boba Fetts helmet.
4:06 I think those words haven't changed since 1646...
So 1 Peter 3 says the Flood is the symbol for Baptism (Water all that) but "Spirit Baptism" is the greater reality of Baptism (which is now the Sybol of "Spirit Baptism". It's funny with the reformed, they kind of want what it actually says, but then explain away that it isn't really what it says it is, but kinda, and those Lord's Supper well yeah we want benefits of it, but yeah it's not really what it says it is, but it kinda is , when you take it spiritually because we really cant comprehend it, and don't want to take the whole thing on faith. When in doubt spiritualize it.
A Baptist is a Bible believing Christian. A Methodist is a Baptist with a pair of shoes. A Presbyterian is a Baptist with a bank account. A Lutheran is a Methodist of German or Scandinavian descent. And an Episcopalian is part Baptist, part Catholic, and with a yacht.
The Holy Bible of which Jehovah God is the one Author was completed by means of his witnesses, even as it had been begun by means of them. Consequently, with no room allowed for Scriptural contradiction, it may be said that The Holy Bible is the Book by Jehovah's Witness. As Revelation 19:6 exclaims, "Hallelujah!"
May I ask for clarification on what you mean by this? I am also one of Jehovah's Witnesses, but I have not heard language quite like this before. You say "The holy Bible is the book by Jehovah's Witnesses".
Now, certainly, the Jews and Christians spoken of in the Bible were Witnesses of Jehovah, though that many not have been a name they would have used regularly. Thus, as Jehovah God used these to write the Bible, although God is the actual author, it can be said that the Bible is the book of Jehovah's Witnesses, in much the same way parts of the Bible could be called the book of Tertius or Baruch (Not to be confused with the apocryphal Book of Baruch).
I bring this up just in order to confirm I have not misunderstood you.
Having been a lifetime conservative Presbyterian, it’s the OPC that has called me to walk away. They are way to worshipping if their book of order than Biblical Truths.
Jesus taught his followers only one religion, the true religion. It is like a road leading to everlasting life. Jesus said: "Few are finding" that road. (Matthew 7:14) God accepts only worship based on his Word of truth. All true worshippers are united in one faith. --- John 4:23, 24; 14:6; Ephesians 4:4, 5.
PCA is still a big Calvinistic TULIP!
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The Holy Bible is a Jehovah's Witness Book (Isaiah 43:10-12)
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Even a Christian cannot brush aside the worship of Jehovah as God. In Revelation 1:5 the Son of God called himself "Jesus Christ, 'The Faithful Witness.'" When on earth as a man he was a Jew, an Israelite, to whose nation the words of Isaiah 43:10 were written: "You are my witnesses,' is the utterance of Jehovah, 'even my servant whom I have chosen.'" Jesus demonstrated that he was a faithful and witness of Jehovah God. His genuine disciples today must be the same kind of witnesses, Jehovah's.
All Christians worship “Jehovah” or more accurately, YHWH in the persons of the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. We are all witnesses of God and His life, deeds, and death as Christ. I’m not sure what you’re trying to get at suggesting Christians somehow do not worship Yahweh.
The dead church that is devoid of God's presence.
How
NO PROPER THEOLOGY CAN ATONE FOR THE VIOLATION OF SCRIPTURE THAT I WITNESSED IN DESTROYING A MINISTRY. I WILL NEVER SUBMIT TO THE GOVERNMENT AND DISCIPLINE OF FALLEN MAN. CHURCH COURT ABUSE IS A SIN ON THE HANDS OF THE PCA.
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It is only logical that there would be one true religion. This is in harmony with the fact that the true God is a God, "not of disorder, but of peace." (1 Corinthians 14:33) The Bible says that actually there is only "one faith." (Ephesians 4:5) Who, then, are the ones who form the body of true worshippers today?
We do not hesitate to say that they are Jehovah's Witnesses.
God’s personal name is YHWH or “Yahweh.” Jehova is a Yiddish translation that is improperly transliterated. Why do you call God this?
a heretic circus
What is heretical about them?
The Pca and the Pcusa should just merge they are both liberals and not confessional
That is a LIE, straight from the gates of hell smelling of smoke.