This is a supplemental class to chapters 9 and 10 just covered of the Westminster Confession addressing a distinctive of our church: denying "Common Grace" and the "Well Meant Offer". Resources partially shared in class: 1. https://www.trinityfoundation.org/PDF/The%20Trinity%20Review%200055a%20TheMythofCommonGrace.pdf 2. https://www.opc.org/GA/free_offer.html#Minority 3. Quote shared during the meeting: "Nevertheless, great as he was, I consider Kuyper's movement to be a dead end for American Reformed Christians for both theological and political reasons. Politically, Kuyper worked within the bounds of a small continental European nation, with a homogeneous society and a political tradition that have little in common with the American Empire, an offspring of the British Empire. Theologically, Kuyper's movement used a flawed concept of "common grace" as the basis for cooperation between believers and nonbelievers in the public arena, a concept that continues to bear bad fruit both in the Netherlands and in churches of Dutch descent in this country, because it has been used to blur the antithesis between believer and unbeliever, and between Revelation and human efforts to grope for the truth." --William Edgar, "Reformed Systematic Theology Textbooks: Handmaid to the Enlightenment Privatization of Faith", in Reformed Presbyterian Theological Journal (Pittsburgh: RPTS, Spring 2016, Vol. 2, Issue 2) , 8: Online: http://www.rpts.edu/pdf/Reformed%20Presbyterian%20Theological%20Journal%20%28Vol.%202,%20Iss.%202,%20Spring%202016%29.pdf 4. rpcga.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/RPCGA-BCO-2016.pdf 5. PRPC presentation for Presbytery relations on these topics (see attached pdf).
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Pastor Grant Van Leuven accepted the call to the Puritan Reformed Presbyterian Church (PRPC) in June of 2010, and moved with his family to San Diego at the end of August to begin serving the saints here. He was ordained and installed as pastor by the Session of the PRPC on...
