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. By doing so, and "liking" individual posts, you also boost our reach on face book. To God alone be the glory. Byron Center Protestant Reformed Church was organized officially on October 20, 1983. Byron Center PRC belongs to the Protestant Reformed denomination, which consists of 31 churches and over 7800 members in the United States and Canada. Founded as a separate denomination of Reformed churches in 1924, the PRC stand in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. Their origin as a denomination was the doctrinal controversy over common grace within the Christian Reformed Church in the early 1920s, occasioned by that church's adoption of the doctrine of common grace as official church dogma. The result of the controversy was that several ministers with their congregations were put out of the Christian Reformed Church. These men then established the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) on the basis of the truth of God's sovereign, particular grace in Jesus Christ as taught in Scripture. The PRC stand in the line of Reformed, Calvinist Christian faith. One brief summary of the doctrines we hold is expressed by the mnemonic TULIP:
Total depravity
Unconditional election
Limited atonement
Irresistible grace
Preservation (or Perseverance) of the saints
Our understanding of salvation is expanded from TULIP in the "Solas." "Sola, in Latin, means “only” or “alone.” The adjective sola is attached to the four nouns: Christ, faith, grace, and God’s glory. In Latin: Solus Christus, sola fide, sola gratia, and soli Deo Gloria. By using these phrases, the Reformed faith teaches that salvation is the work of Christ alone, through faith alone, by grace alone, to the glory of God alone. The fifth sola—sola Scriptura—teaches that the authority for what we believe and how we live is Scripture alone. Over against Roman Catholicism and Arminianism—which also confess Christ, grace, faith, and glory to God—Calvinism teaches that salvation comes from Christ alone, by grace alone, through faith alone, to the glory of God alone."
~ from What It Means to Be Reformed, by Professor B. Gritters. (Link pending.) More information may be found at our denominational website: http://www.prca.org/
We also recommend materials available from the Reformed Free Publishing Association. http://rfpa.org/
