Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches

Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches
Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Reformed evangelical
Presiding Minister	Virgil Hurt
Origin	1998
Congregations	78
Official website	crechurches.org

The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), formerly the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches,^[1] was founded in 1998 as a body of churches that hold to Reformed (Calvinistic) theology.^[2] Member churches include those from Presbyterian, Reformed, and Reformed Baptist backgrounds. The CREC has over a hundred member churches in the United States, Canada, Japan, Russia, Hungary, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Belarus and Poland.^[3]

Doctrine

The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches holds to classic Calvinism (as promulgated in the Westminster Standards, Three Forms of Unity, and 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith), but on some doctrines in which Calvinists differ, (e.g., the Federal Vision, paedocommunion and paedobaptism) the CREC allows each church to decide its own stance. The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches allows member churches to hold to any of the following historic Confessions:

Westminster Confession of Faith (1647)
American Westminster Confession of Faith (1789)
The Three Forms of Unity:
- Belgic Confession (1561)
- Heidelberg Catechism (1563)
- Canons of Dort (1619)
The London Baptist Confession (1689)
The Savoy Declaration (1658)
Second Helvetic Confession
39 Articles
The Reformed Evangelical Confession

Notable members

References

^ Wilson, Douglas. "The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches". Retrieved 6 October 2011.
^ History, Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches.
^ Churches, Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (see linked presbytery pages

External links

CREC (homepage).

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[The_Communion_of_Reformed_Evangelical_Churches-1] Wilson, Douglas. "The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches". Retrieved 6 October 2011.

[2] History, Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches.

[3] Churches, Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches (see linked presbytery pages

[note_n0-4] This denomination is the result of a merger between Lutheran, German Reformed, Congregational and Restorationist churches and is such considered by some to no longer be a "Reformed denomination".

[note_n1-5] This refers to the denomination's heritage and not necessarily to the language in which the services are conducted in.

[note_n6-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Member of the NAPARC.

[note_n2-7] This is a reformed synod within the United Church of Christ that is distinct in heritage, doctrine and practice from the rest of the denomination.

[note_n3-8] Those are denominations spawned by the Fundamentalist–modernist controversy of the 1920s.

[note_n4-9] Although Presbyterianism itself originated in Scotland, those denominations stand out as having a more prominent Scottish heritage and/or connection with Scottish Presbyterian denominations.

[note_n5-10] Those denominations allow member churches to be more diverse as regards the reformed tradition that they adhere to.

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