North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council

North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council

The North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC) is an association of several Presbyterian and Reformed churches in the United States and Canada. The Council meets annually.

It lists biblical inerrancy as its basis, along with the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Belgic Confession, the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Canons of Dordt.

Some Presbyterian and Reformed churches in the United States and Canada do not belong to the Council, the reason for this typically being theological liberalism. These churches include the Presbyterian Church in Canada, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Reformed Church in America, and the Christian Reformed Church in North America (expelled in 2001 after approval of the ordination of women as pastors).

The 34th Meeting was hosted by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Taylors, South Carolina, from November 11-12, 2008. The 35th Meeting was hosted by the Heritage Reformed Congregations at Puritan Reformed Seminary in Grand Rapids MI, from November 17-18, 2009.


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Member denominations

Basis

The Constitution of NAPARC states that the Basis of the Council is "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 Dordt, the Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms. That the adopted basis of fellowship be regarded as warrant for the establishment of a formal relationship of the nature of a council, that is, a fellowship that enables the constituent churches to advise, counsel, and cooperate in various matters with one another and hold out before each other the desirability and need for organic union of churches that are of like faith and practice."

Purpose and Function

  • Facilitate discussion and consultation between member bodies on those issues and problems which divide them as well as on those which they face in common and by the sharing of insights "communicate advantages to one another" (Institutes IV, 2, 1).
  • Promote the appointment of joint committees to study matters of common interest and concern.
  • Exercise mutual concern in the perpetuation, retention, and propagation of the Reformed faith.
  • Promote co-operation wherever possible and feasible on the local and denominational level in such areas as missions, relief efforts, Christian schools, and church education.

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