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March 22, 2018 · by Cameron Shaffer · in Uncategorized

“Then he brought them out and said, ‘Sirs, what must I do to be saved?’ And they said, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved…'”  – Acts 16:30-31.

The Philippian jailer’s exchange with Paul and Silas presents one of the easiest and best scriptural summaries of what we must do to be saved: just believe. Faith in what Jesus has done, and trust in nothing else, is all we bring. We merely respond to what Christ has accomplished.

The clarity and simplicity of exchange have also been used as part of evangelicalism’s problem of mere Christianity…

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Split from the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1937, one year after its founding, over the issues of abstinence from alcohol and premillennialism.

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Formed by the Scottish immigrants of the Seceder tradition in 1753, the majority merged with the Covenanters in 1782, and then as the United Presbyterian Church of North America merged with the PCUSA in 1956. The remaining Associate Presbyterians form the ARPC of today.

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