Are the Covenanters a Cult?

The Exclusive Claim to Being the Most Faithful Church:

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by Michael Wagner, PhD

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Are the Covenanters a Cult?

 

The Exclusive Claim to Being the Most Faithful Church:

An Inescapable Concept

 

by Michael Wagner, PhD

 

The Puritan Reformed Church (PRC) claims that it is the most faithful church currently in existence of which it is aware. This claim is based on the fact that it is the only contemporary church which adheres to all of the doctrinal and practical attainments of the Second Reformation, namely the complete package of the Westminster Standards as adopted by the Church of Scotland (Confession, Catechisms, Directories, Covenants, etc., see http://prce.cjb.net/ ). This claim has sparked sharp criticism, even the false and ungodly allegation that the PRC has become a "cult." In effect, this astounding libel would make the majority of the Westminster Divines, not to mention many other major Reformers, cultists themselves! In the view of the critics, all conservative Reformed and Presbyterian churches are, more or less, faithful churches. Thus for one church to call itself the "most faithful" is a mark of arrogance or pride, which apparently elevates that body to the level of a "cult," a term typically applied to identify and distinguish Christian churches from non-Christian churches.

 

At first glance this view seems quite plausible. There are a number of conservative Reformed and Presbyterian denominations in North America alone, and each one contains sincere and committed Christians. Many also contain ministers who are notable for their public and articulate opposition to various doctrinal errors, and the PRC and the related ministry, Still Waters Revival Books (SWRB), rejoice in the truth of these particular testimonies (SWRB's catalogue, http://www.swrb.com, even contains books and cassettes by men outside the PRC promoting these points). But it is important to note that by maintaining separate ecclesiastical constitutions, organizations, and church courts, these distinct denominations are logically and necessarily testifying to all others that they are the most faithful. It is this inescapable claim to faithfulness that provides a reasonable justification for their separate ecclesiastical existence. If each denomination really considered the others to be equally faithful as itself, then they would all be united together in obedience to Christ's command (John 17:21,22). It is only a need to defend distinctive doctrines or practices that can Scripturally justify a church remaining separate from other churches. By its very existence, a denomination is making a claim to being "the most faithful" of all denominations, defending doctrines and practices that the others are not adequately defending or promoting. If a denomination maintains a separate existence when it could have merely joined together with another denomination of acceptable principles and practices, would that not be a schismatic organization, unscripturally separated from other members of Christ's body?

 

Think about it this way: If someone were to ask you, "Is your church the most faithful Reformed or Presbyterian church that you know of?" and you responded, "no," the obvious next question would be, "Then what are you doing there?!!" Shouldn't it be the goal of every Christian to be a part of the purest and most faithful church he or she knows about (Phil. 3:16)? If not, then Christians will consciously be supporting error and unfaithfulness by their membership in, and financial gifts to, a less faithful church (i.e., a church with sinful teachings and practices). How can that be Scripturally justified? Clearly it can't be. Thus by your membership in a particular church, you are implicitly claiming that your church is the most faithful church. Otherwise you wouldn't be there, you would go to the one you considered to be more faithful -- assuming you were willing to follow the Biblical command to separate from erring brethren (Rom. 16:17).

 

This makes it plain that the Puritan Reformed Church's claim to be the most faithful church at present is no different from what other churches are claiming: all churches are making this claim by their very existence, if not openly and explicitly, then covertly and implicitly. If the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA), for example, considered the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) to be equally or even more faithful than itself, it would join with the PCA. By the same token, if the PCA considered the RPCNA to be equally or more faithful than itself, it would join with the RPCNA. Thus both of these denominations are testifying against each other's unfaithfulness by remaining separate from the other. The RPCNA is therefore claiming to be more faithful than the PCA (and all other denominations it hasn't united with) and the PCA is claiming to be more faithful than the RPCNA (and all other denominations it hasn't united with). Is this arrogance and pride? If so, these denominations should repent and merge together. Separate denominational existences can only be Scripturally justified by the need to defend necessary doctrinal distinctives, and this does not make a church a cult. Each denomination is making an exclusive claim to being the most faithful of all (at least within a particular nation) or else it must consider itself to be unjustly separated from brethren contrary to Christ's command. This exclusive claim is an inescapable concept. Sadly, it seems to have escaped the detractors of the PRC.

 

Like all other churches, the Puritan Reformed Church claims itself to be the most faithful. People who criticize this claim are either being hypocritical or schismatic. Hypocritical, because their church also claims to be most faithful, at least implicitly by its separate existence. Or schismatic, because if their church is not more faithful than the others, then it should repent of its unfaithfulness and unite with the church that is more faithful. Take your pick.

 

Are the Covenanters a cult, because in order to justify their necessary and separate existence they explicitly claim to be most faithful to the real scriptural attainments of the First and Second Reformations? If that is our detractors' current definition of a cult, then the best place for them to stand is in front of a mirror. When members of the other denominations become conscious of the image of their own self-contradiction and self-condemnation, then this false charge against the PRC, like the many others that have preceded it, will be exposed for what it truly is -- vanity and misrepresentation.

 

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Resource 1. ANDERSON, JOHN

Overcoming Division and Unifying the Visible Church (1794)

 

A sermon (of 24 pages) on "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge" (Prov. 19:27). The author writes,

 

What is aimed at in this discourse is, to strike at a principal root of the numerous divisions now in the visible church. It teaches that we ought not to be in a state of separation from any church-communion, but upon such grounds as are scriptural; and upon such considerations, as involving the declarative glory of God, are of inconceivable and infinite importance. Were this doctrine embraced, there would be no separate church-communions upon trivial pretences; or for the sake of religious tenets or usages in the worship of God which have no foundation in his word; no separate church-communions on account of local customs, uncertain opinions, or uninstituted ceremonies; no separate church-communions founded on the narrow and interested views of a faction. What is here attempted is a seasonable application of the cautions, with which the scriptures abound, against false teachers. To direct church-members to the right use and application of such cautions will be the endeavor of the faithful ministers of Christ; an endeavor which is rendered peculiarly necessary by the corruptions which prevail in the present (divided--RB) state of the visible church. Those who reckon that practical religion is not concerned in the subject of this discourse should consider that true believers have it for their distinguishing character, that they abhor false doctrine, and avoid communion with the teachers of it (John 10:5, Rev. 14:4).

 

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