About the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church

“Why become ARP? Because I appreciate a church that historically wanted to be faithful without being schismatic. Because deep roots in the Reformed tradition are important to me. Because church is family, and here we are neither lost in the cogs of denominational politics nor retreating into practical independency. Because the ARP provides a place to stand—on Christ, in Scripture, in loyalty to the Westminster Standards—room to breathe, and an opportunity to grow as the church looks to be faithful to the Lord into the future.”

“Synod is the gathering of representatives (elders and ministers) from all of our Associate Reformed Presbyterian churches in order to discuss matters which relate to the church as a whole. … Most of the time such gatherings are a great deal of fun—meeting familiar faces and friends that we haven’t seen since last year’s Synod. … It is a demonstration of the unity of the body of Christ.”

“During the seventeen years that I have been a member of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church I have been privileged to watch an old church become a new one. Indeed, to me, that is the genius of the ARP today. This very old church, whose origin dates to the 1700s, is a very new church as well. At its inception, its goal was to provide a place for true Presbyterians who were unwilling to bow to erroneous teaching about the Gospel, to worship, fellowship, and reach out to the lost. Now, in our generation there has been not only a revival of its original mission, but an even greater desire for local and world outreach.”