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Posted on 02/02/2011 10:04:55 AM PST by Alex Murphy
What would a baptized and confirmed Roman Catholic need to do in order to join the Orthodox Presbyterian Church?
Allow me to answer you question with a brief autobiographical anecdote. I was born, baptized, raised, confirmed, and educated in the Roman Catholic system. In fact, it was while I was at a Roman Catholic college (of all places) that I was converted by the grace of God. After realizing how different the teachings of the RCC are from Scripture, I joined with a Baptist church. And that church required that I be rebaptized as an adult. So, I went through that process and became a member. Several years later I came to understand the doctrine of the Bible as it was taught in Reformed churches like the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC). Joining them was quite easy. I went before the session (a group of men who are officers in the church) where they interviewed me to make sure I had a credible profession of faith in Jesus Christ. The following Sunday they put me before the congregation where I publicly professed my faith in Jesus Christ in the form of several membership vows. And that was it. I was a member!
So, being baptized and confirmed in the RCC is no big obstacle if you want to become a member of the OPC. As long as you have come to trust in Jesus Christ alone for your salvation, and you trust not in any of your works. When asked the question "What must I do to be saved?", the response of Paul and Silas was "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved" (Acts 16:31), and that is still true today. What is important is to put your full trust in Jesus. If you have done that, if you have repented of your sin and trust in Jesus alone, you are welcomed into the fellowship of the OPC. There is no need to be re-baptized and there is no need to renounce your confirmation.
At this point I would strongly encourage you to seek out the pastor of a local OPC, and he can guide you through the details of the steps toward membership in the OPC. If you need assistance finding an OPC in your area, you can check out our Directory of Churches. May God bless you and may you "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 5:18). If we can be of further assistance, just let us know!
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If every catholic church had a Fr corapi or a St John vianney most people would not be bored. :)
***What goeth before a fall?***
A summer?
This is what the person vows in the PCA:
(All of) you being here present to make a public
profession of faith, are to assent to the following declarations and
promises, by which you enter into a solemn covenant with God
and His Church.
1. Do you acknowledge yourselves to be sinners in the sight of
God, justly deserving His displeasure, and without hope save
in His sovereign mercy?
2. Do you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God,
and Savior of sinners, and do you receive and rest upon Him
alone for salvation as He is offered in the Gospel?
3. Do you now resolve and promise, in humble reliance upon
the grace of the Holy Spirit, that you will endeavor to live as
becomes the followers of Christ?
4. Do you promise to support the Church in its worship and
work to the best of your ability?
5. Do you submit yourselves to the government and discipline
of the Church, and promise to study its purity and peace?
Or get saved....
1Cr 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
BTW I agree with the Gamecock that your tag line borders on blasphemy , but seeing that it is the Holy Spirit that gives understanding and makes one wise..perhaps that is about the best an unregenerate man can do
Of their priest's belt?
“gay and lesbian minister and assistant “
Yeah, no gays in the Catholic Church...cough...cough
“Of their priest’s belt? “
DOH!
Did I say anything about Roman Catholics?
Hi there Irish. Hoisting a Jameson's to you.
I hear that the PCA is looking to have female deacons as part of their clergy. Any truth in that?
Since the OPC is a church of men, and we can don the hip waders and breathing apparatus and trudge amid the sludge of the remnants of the Reformation and the ruins of the Restoration, we can trace their man-made history from the splits of the splits of the splits of the splits of those who arrogantly left the Church of Christ.
BTW I agree with the Gamecock that your tag line borders on blasphemy , but seeing that it is the Holy Spirit that gives understanding and makes one wise..perhaps that is about the best an unregenerate man can do
My pal St. Augustine came up with it and you know what? The Catholic hero of the Reformation is good enough for me.
Yes.
Where?
there is no such thing as a former Catholic...once you are baptized into the true church that Jesus Himself founded, you remain a member forever...to return to practice...repent and WELCOME HOME!!!
There was some mumbling about it, but the BOCO (Book Of Church Order) doesn’t allow it. It won’t happen.
let's see now...you leave the church which wrote the scriptures, (not actually wrote them but transcribed , protected, interpreted, authenticated, etc.etc. ) to join a "church" which sprang up 1,500or so years later and then you decide that the church is "truly off"....now I get it, you had a revelation and Jesus Himself told you that He blew it when He founded the Catholic church...at last I understand
that, of course would be impossible.....you cannot be more Christian when you deny the church that Jesus Himself founded....remember, He said I will be with you until the end of time.....not 1,500 or so years until the protestants popped up.
no, you didn’t learn the RCC was “different” than scriptures, you “learned” it by cherry picking bible verses out of context.
It’s like a game of “gotcha”: stick up a straw man (A catholic dogma, and sometimes just a pious practice) and then find a verse against it, ignore all the early church fathers, and any verse that might support the Catholic point of view, and voila, instant “bad bad catholics”.
‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or any of those one billion immoral and deluded Catholics...I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
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Oh, hogwash! You really ought to do some fact checking before you post such an easily verifiable falsehood. It will prevent you from looking so foolish and petty:
CCC 2042 - The first precept ("You shall attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor") requires the faithful to sanctify the day commemorating the Resurrection of the Lord as well as the principal liturgical feasts honoring the mysteries of the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the saints; in the first place, by participating in the Eucharistic celebration, in which the Christian community is gathered, and by resting from those works and activities which could impede such a sanctification of these days.
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