Well thank you for the information. I’m not very familiar with the organizations and their various flavors.
Honestly, I’m not either. There are a bewildering variety of Presbyterian denominations—Presbyterians fractured over slavery in the 1800s and ever since there have been branches and sub-branches largely split between North and South. PCUSA is the biggest and most national. The Presbyterian Church in America (where I came to Christ) and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church are two of the conservative, smaller but growing denominations. The PCA, as I understand it, is more centered in the South, and the OPC in the North.
PCA is a conservative, Bible-believing denomination. No female pastors, no gay marriage, strongly mission-oriented and pro-life. My pastor in South Carolina was a wonderful man, a big, burly, no-BS guy from Michigan named Rick Perrin. He didn’t do fire and brimstone, but by the end of a sermon, you had ZERO doubt that you had just been preached to, and not one of these fluff-coated sweetness-and-light sermons either! Real spiritual red meat.
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