I hope people don’t confuse the PCUSA with the PCA.
RE: I hope people don’t confuse the PCUSA with the PCA.
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For those who don’t know, here’s a little history...
The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is an evangelical Protestant Christian denomination in the Reformed tradition. It is the second largest Presbyterian church body in the United States. The church declares its goal to be “faithful to the Scriptures, true to the Reformed faith, and obedient to the Great Commission.”
Conservative pastors and lay leaders became alarmed by the PCUSA’s drift from orthodoxy and historic confessional and biblical standards of the church.
By the 1970s, conservative pastors in the PCUSA began to plan an exit from the denomination.
They sought to reaffirm the Westminster Confession of Faith as the fullest and clearest exposition of biblical faith and to call all pastors and leaders to affirm the inerrancy of Scripture. As a result they also felt the church should disavow the ordination of women.
In December 1973, delegates from 260 congregations (over half of them from Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina) that had left the PCUSA gathered at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, and organized the National Presbyterian Church. After protests from a UPCUSA congregation of the same name in Washington, D.C., the denomination at its Second General Assembly (1974) called itself the National Reformed Presbyterian Church, then adopted its present name (Presbyterian Church in America or PCA) the next day.
Indeed. I’m in the PCA myself and I never want it to be confused with the PCUSA which resembles the CPUSA more than anything John Calvin or John Knox taught.