Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America

Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America
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Classification	Protestant
Theology	Reformed Evangelical
Governance	Presbyterian
Region	North America, Japan
Congregations	100 (As of 2016)
Members	6,572 (As of 2009)
Ministers	151
Missionaries	6
Tertiary institutions	1

The Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA), a Christian church, is a Presbyterian denomination with churches throughout the United States, in Canada, and in Japan. Its beliefs place it in the conservative wing of the Reformed family of Protestant churches. Below the Bible—which is held as divinely inspired and without error—the church is committed to several "subordinate standards," together considered with its constitution: the Westminster Confession of Faith and Larger and Shorter Catechisms, along with its Testimony, Directory for Church Government, Book of Discipline, and Directory for Worship. All communicant members "believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, the only infallible rule for faith and life," according to the first of several vows required for such membership.

Primary doctrinal distinctions which separate the RPCNA from other Reformed and Presbyterian denominations are: 1) its continued adherence to the historical practice of the Church, contained in the Westminster Confession of Faith, of singing the Psalms exclusively in its worship, and 2) its continuing affirmation of Jesus, the Christ, as mediatorial King, ruling over all nations. Prior to the 1960s, the RPCNA refused to vote or participate in government in the United States due to its not directly acknowledging Christ's authority over it, and since has continued (at some times more heavily than others), to lobby the federal government to expressly submit to the authority of Jesus Christ in the U.S. Constitution.

The RPCNA has a long history, having been a separate denomination in the United States since colonial days. Furthermore, in Scotland (where the denomination originated), Reformed Presbyterians have been a separate denomination since the late 17th century, and prior to that, a part of the original Presbyterian Church of Scotland that came out of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.