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As one communion in the worldwide church, the Presbyterian Church
in America exists to glorify God by extending the kingdom of Jesus
Christ over all individual lives through all areas of society and
in all nations and cultures. To accomplish this end the PCA aims to
fill the world with churches that are continually growing in vital
worship, in theological depth, in true fellowship, in assertive evangelism
and in deeds of compassion.
The distinctiveness of the PCA lies in our stress on both reformation
and revival. Without an emphasis on revival, "reformation"
may become either a mimicking of political ideologies or sterile
doctrinalism. Without an emphasis on reformation, "revival"
may become a shallow pietism or mysticism. Only reformation and
revival together can accomplish the Great Commission of our Lord.
We are committed to the Scriptures and the historic Westminster
Standards based firmly on a biblical theology that answers the questions
and issues of each culture and people to which we minister.
We are committed to worship that practices the presence and
power of God within the church to the transformation of the surrounding
culture through biblical application in population centers around
the world.
We are committed to the winning of new converts and their incorporation
into the church through the ministry of the Word and to significant
ministry to the needy through deeds of mercy and service.
We are committed to the freedom of every member to minister
through spiritual gifts and also to the responsibility to do so under
spiritual authority and loving discipline.
We are committed to dynamic, prophetic confrontation on non-Christian
thought forms and behavior and also to the demonstration of the truth
through the practice of holiness and love in Christian fellowship.
We are committed to guarding and strengthening the biblical
family and also to a ministry to the broken family forms such as the
divorced, the widowed and the unwed parent.
We are committed to teaching and discipling men and women in
the whole counsel of God and also to ministering to the needs of the
whole person.
True to the Scriptures, the reformed faith, and obedient to the
Great Commission of Jesus Christ.
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