RED churches

We live in a time when Christian networks are all the rage. Various conferences, coalitions, and associations are forming in order to encourage it amongst like-minded pastors and laity from various Christian traditions. Unlike those networks, RED works intra-church to promote unity within existing ecclesiastical structures. We are convinced that the visible Church ought to be our primary place to discover and express our solidarity with other Christians. This desire for a churchly unity compelled our Reformed forefathers to create the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC). They established our unity on the common confession of faith that Reformed denominations share, namely, The Westminster Standards and The Three Forms of Unity.  The NAPARC Constitution says this in Article II:

Confessing Jesus Christ as only Savior and Sovereign Lord over all of life, we affirm the basis of the fellowship of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches to be full commitment to the Bible in its entirety as the Word of God written, without error in all its parts and to its teaching as set forth in the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dort, the Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms.

The ecclesiastical unity that exists between NAPARC churches is not found in a new method of church-planting, a liturgy or hymnal, a common ethnic background, an understanding of Christ and culture, or a theological seminary. Rather, this unity is found within ecclesiastically sanctioned statements of faith. What would happen if we returned our confessions and catechisms to their rightful place and removed extra-confessional boundary markers? What if the Presbyterian and Reformed churches began to exercise the unity that exists in print? If you would like to find out, join the conversation and start talking to your neighboring pastors and elders.