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by Jeremiah W. Montgomery
From its earliest days, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC) has been a church accustomed to carrying the cross. All but three of our founding congregations lost their properties. All our founding members and ministers sacrificed the social capital that came with being a part of the prestigious mainline Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). Our first generation of home and foreign missionaries labored in desperate places—sometimes under shocking poverty. The men and women who sacrificed to establish the OPC were not motivated by hopes of fanfare or influence. The ignominious way in which the PCUSA had silenced their leaders, seized their sanctuaries, and leveraged state power to deprive the fledgling denomination of its first name thoroughly inoculated our first fathers and mothers against any delusions of earthly power or worldly splendor. To join the OPC was to accept scorn, embrace loss, and surrender any seat at society’s “big table.” Yet all this did not make our members, ministers, and ... Read more
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