From examining ministers on 16th-century confessions to requiring systematic preaching through the Heidelberg Catechism, the URCNA's commitments reveal how doctrine shapes everything from Sunday worship to ecclesiastical accountability.
The young man who could shepherd churches for the next forty years might be sitting in your congregation right now, waiting for someone to see what he cannot see in himself. Will you be the pastor who speaks up?
What began with a single letter from an Illinois consistory in 1986 became a decade-long journey through conferences, controversies, and careful deliberation, culminating in a moment when roughly 40 churches took the unprecedented step of forming an entirely new federation.