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With the preaching at the General Assembly of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States and the Atlanta Christian Training Seminar on June 8 - 10, some commented that God brought to them the most important spiritual revival in forty-five years. The fire of the Spirit of God began glowing among us at the opening of our RPCUS General Assembly on Friday morning when Carl Bogue, a PCA pastor from Ohio, preached a powerful message from the word of God, entitled "The Awe and All of the Gospel Message", taken from Acts 20:17ff and Matthew 28:18-20.
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1990 Issue 6 - A Light to the Nations - Counsel of Chalcedon
With the preaching at the General Assembly of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States and the Atlanta Christian Training Seminar on June 8 - 10, some commented that God brought to them the most important spiritual revival in forty-five years. The fire of the Spirit of God began glowing among us at the opening of our RPCUS General Assembly on Friday morning when Carl Bogue, a PCA pastor from Ohio, preached a powerful message from the word of God, entitled "The Awe and All of the Gospel Message", taken from Acts 20:17ff and Matthew 28:18-20.
With the preaching at the General Assembly of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States and the Atlanta Christian Training Seminar on June 8 - 10, some commented that God brought to them the most important spiritual revival in forty-five years. The fire of the Spirit of God began glowing among us at the opening of our RPCUS General Assembly on Friday morning when Carl Bogue, a PCA pastor from Ohio, preached a powerful message from the word of God, entitled "The Awe and All of the Gospel Message", taken from Acts 20:17ff and Matthew 28:18-20.
deserves the new insight brought to it by Rev. Morecraft. ----in the last issue we asked for your response to what you would like to see The Counsel of Chalcedon feature in future issues. We appreciate the response we have had and encourage you to share your thoughts and needs with us. We appreciate hearing from you. ----the third and last installment of A Diary from South Africa by Becky Morecraft will appear next month . . We hope you have enjoyed this personal . account of her visit earlier this year. ED. I am an experienced high school teacher in MA TH/SCIENCE/BffiLE and want a position in a . Reformed Christian School this fall. Thomas W. Prior Rt 20 Box 479 ~ ~ i ~ !f, ~ 1 ~ ~ 5 REPORT ON THE GENERAL ,ASSEMBLY OF THE REFORMED PREsBYTERIAN cHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES by Joe Moreaaft, m With the preaching at the General Assembly of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States and the Atlanta Christian Training Seminar on June 8 - 10, some commented that God brought to them the most important spiritual revival forty-five years. The frre of the Spirit of God began glowing among us at the opening of our RPCUS General Assembly on Friday morning when Carl Bogue, a PCA pastor from Ohio, preached a powerful message from the word of God, entitled "The Awe and All of the Gospel Message", taken from Acts 20: 17ff and Matthew 28:18-20. As we met in General Assembly, something became more and more obivous. God was not only burning His word within us, he was shining the light of His word through our small body of men and women to our whole nation and to the world In fact, it continues to surprise us how many millions of people hear the gospel from the lips of our preachers and missionaries and magazines each year. God is to be praised for being faithful to his promise that he would make THE WORlD'S NATIONS CHRISTS DISCIPLES. Two events illustrate the spreading influence for Christ of our denomination around the nation and world. First, we had to form three additional . presbyteries for the better governing and advancing of the RPCUS. The four presbyteries are COVENANT (Georgia); I AM INTERESTED . IN BUYING USED CHRISTIAN BOOKS AND SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS . John R. Hunt 10545 W 62nd Ave Arvada, CO 80004 (303) 423-4620 The Counsel of Chalcedon July 1990 Page 3 Nicaragua); HANOVER (Virginia- New England); and NORTIIWEST (Nebraska- Washington-Alberta). Now our . earnest prayer is that God would bless our presbyteries to be . faithful to His word and to grow rapidly, spiritually, and numerically. Second, because the RPCUS is growing internationally with churches in the U. S., Canada, Nicaragua and plans to ordain a new . :illimster in Y orkshite, England . we have changed the . :denomination name to I.HE. 'REfORMED PRESYBTEIUAN . ,CHURCH IN THE AMERICAS. The voting members who attended the General Assembly include Ruling Elders Bill ]3rown, Chalcedon Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA; Bob Bailey, Christ Community Presbyterian Church, Lawrenceville, GA; Jack Draguet, Christ Presbyterian . Church, Lakeland, FL; -Reuberi Euba:Dks, First Refonned Presbyterian Church, Managua, Nicaragua; Greg Barrow, Reformed Mission Church, Edmonton, Canada; and Dana Rykken, Sovereigt:i. Grace Church, Spokarie, W A. Teaching Elders attending included Robert Hargrove, Sovereign Grace Church, Spokane, W A; Ken Talbot, Whitfield Theological Seminary, Lakeland, FL; Robert Lester, Chalcedon Christian' School, Atlanta, GA; Sam Brown, Immanuel Presbyterian_ Church, Merrimac, NH; Geoff Donnan, Caribbean Christian Ministries; Wayne Rogers, Christ Community Presbyterian Church, Lawrenceville, GA; John Otis, Triumphant Publications, Atlanta, GA; Randy Talbot, Whitfield Theological Seminmy,OcMa,FL;Phil Schmidt, Christ Church, Louisville, NE; Joe Mellen, Ualtiniore, MD and Joe . Morecraft, ill, Chalcedon Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA. Candidates under the care .. of the denomination include Chris Strevel and Charining Millet from Chalcedon Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA. and Todd Streete from Chesapeake Seminary, Jessup, MD. An important decision made by the Assembly was the . unanimous adoption of the original "Form of Presbyterial . Church-Government'' of the Westminster Assembly as our. book of church order. Since our we temporarily used an edited version of the first editon of the PeA's Book of Church Order. We adopted the Form of . P.reSbyterial Church-Government for several reasons. It confonns to the general principles of Biblical church polity. It has copious scriptural footnotes supporting each principle. It is in the volume which contains our doctrinal constitution, the original unedited Westminster Confession ofFaith and Catechisms and the directory of PUblic Worship of God. Other books of church order are longer, loaded with rules and regulations which are not to be found in the Word of God, but to which churches usually require stricter conformity than to the Westminster Standards. It gives our churches unity of form, government and worship, but being principle in nature, it allows for some freedom as well. Because the Form of Presbyterial Church-Government was written orginally for use in England and Scotland in the Seventeenth Century, it is "culturally and historically conditioned"; therefore, we have added several footnotes containing clarifications and exceptions which we believe bring it into clearer conformitY to the word of God. Some of the clarifications and exceptions P8ge 4 July 1_990 The Counsel of Ch8lcedon include: (1) Ruling Elders are shepherds of the church -along with Teaching Elders. (2) Officers of the church are to be elected by the male heads of households in each congregation . . (3) Hymns and spiritual songs may be sung along with the 150 Psalms. (4) Ministerial examinations do not bave to be in Public prayers need mclude mtercess10rts for Bavanan royalty. For a complete set of . our footnotes to the westminster Book of Church Order and other constitutional documents please call Chalcedon Presbyterian Church at 404-396-0965. We believe that God in His convenant has promised His Church a glorious future in Jesus- Christ, Isaiah 2. We look forward to the future knowing, with all its struggles, afflictions, and progressive victories, it belongs to the faithful people of God and not to the humanists, I . Cor. 3:21-22. Our vision forlife' and the future is determined by the promises of God's covenant and of Christ's kingdom. We pray that God would usethe J,UlCA and all other Refonned and Presbyterian denominations to bring the covenantal blessings of salvation to all of the families of all the nations of the worlci, Psa. 22:27ff; Ga. 3:7ff. We believe that the kingdom of Christ and the preaching of that kingdom will leaven the whole loaf ofhu:man: life and society, as it adv@ccs toward total victory, Mk. 4:2L We work, pray and . hope for the day when the "earth will be full of the knowledge of ' the Lord as the waters cover the sea", Isa. If you would like to talk about joining with us, or if you have . any questions about who we are and what we stand for, we would be delighted to hear from you. Call404-396-0965 or 404- 339-1162.