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| name = North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | abbreviation = | motto = | predecessor = | merged = | successor = | formation = {{start date|1975}} | leader_title = Chairman | leader_name = Lawrence W. Bilkes | founder = | extinction = | merger = | type = | tax_id = | registration_id = | status = | purpose = | headquarters = | location = | coords = | region = | services = | products = | methods = | fields = | membership = | website = {{url|http://www.naparc.org/}} }} The North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC) is an association of several Presbyterian and Reformed churches in the United States and Canada.[1] The Council meets annually. It lists biblical inerrancy as its basis, along with the Six Forms of Unity: the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Belgic Confession, the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms, the Heidelberg Catechism, and the Canons of Dordt. The purpose of NAPARC is to "facilitate cross-denominational conversation and co-operation."[2] History and Basis{{Denominations of Christianity}}The first NAPARC meeting was held in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1975, and had the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), the Christian Reformed Church of North America (CRCNA), the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA) and the Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod as its founding members.[3] In time, NAPARC would grow to include 12 Continental Reformed and Presbyterian denominations. In 1997, the membership of the Christian Reformed Church was suspended, largely on the basis of its 1995 decision to open the offices of elder and minister of word and sacrament to women.[4] The Constitution of NAPARC states that the Basis of the Council is "Confessing Jesus Christ as only Savior and Sovereign Lord over all of life, we affirm the basis of the fellowship of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches to be full commitment to the Bible in its entirety as the Word of God written, without error in all its parts and to its teaching as set forth in the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dordt, the Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms. That the adopted basis of fellowship be regarded as warrant for the establishment of a formal relationship of the nature of a council, that is, a fellowship that enables the constituent churches to advise, counsel, and cooperate in various matters with one another and hold out before each other the desirability and need for organic union of churches that are of like faith and practice." Purpose and function
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=Links {{!}} Aisquith Presbyterian Church|url=http://www.aisquith.org/resources/links/|publisher=Aisquith Presbyterian Church|accessdate=27 June 2012}} 2. ^{{cite book|title=Pocket Dictionary of the Reformed Tradition|date=2013|publisher=InterVarsity Press|page=80|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kYT6mfR2swsC&pg=PA80|accessdate=5 November 2016}} 3. ^"The Constituting Meeting of the North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council (NAPARC)" accessed June 21st, 2013 http://www.naparc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Minutes-of-the-1st-1975-Meeting-of-NAPARC.pdf 4. ^"NAPARC Votes, 6-1, to Suspend the Christian Reformed Church" accessed June 20th, 2013 http://www.presbyteriannews.org/volumes/v4/1/n-crc.htm 5. ^{{cite web|title=Member Churches - NAPARC|url=http://www.naparc.org/member-churches/|publisher=North American Presbyterian and Reformed Council|accessdate=July 18, 2016}} 6. ^{{cite web |url = http://www.thearda.com/Denoms/D_1460.asp| title = Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches|publisher = The National Council of Churches|accessdate = November 13, 2012}} 7. ^J. Visscher (ed.), Yearbook Anno Domini 2018 Canadian and American Reformed Churches (Winnipeg: Premier Printing, 2018). 8. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.erq.qc.ca/english/ourchurches.html |title=ERQ : Our churches |author= |date= |website= |publisher=L'Église réformée du Québec |access-date=July 18, 2016 }} 9. ^"2012 Yearbook of the Free Reformed Churches of North America." 10. ^{{cite web |url= http://heritagereformed.com/index.php/directory |title=Directory of Churches |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Heritage Reformed Congregations |access-date=July 18, 2016 }} 11. ^{{cite web |url = http://opc.org/GA/79th_GA_rpt.html |title = 2012 General Assembly Report}} 12. ^http://theaquilareport.com/stated-clerks-summary-of-the-actions-of-the-41st-general-assembly-of-the-pca/ 13. ^{{citation|title=Congregations|url=http://presbyterianreformed.org/congregations.php|accessdate=November 13, 2012|author=Presbyterian Reformed Church|year=2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030182335/http://www.presbyterianreformed.org/congregations.php|archivedate=October 30, 2012|df=}} 14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rcus.org/index.php/resources/doc_download/322-2012-synod-abstract|title=Abstract of the Minutes of the 266th Synod|format=PDF|pages=64–68|accessdate=November 13, 2012}} 15. ^Minutes of the Synod and Yearbook of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America 2018. Pittsburgh: Crown and Covenant, 2018, p. D80. 16. ^{{cite web|author=Bill Konynenbelt|publisher=United Reformed Churches in North America|url=http://www.service-life.com/urcna/churchdirectory/2008/2008%20Directory%20Part%20I%20Only%20-%2010-31-08.pdf|title=Directory of the United Reformed Churches in North America|format=PDF|page=3|accessdate=November 13, 2012}} External links
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