Peter Bringe

Pastor of Covenant Family Church (OPC): Husband to Melody and father of seven. St. Charles County, Missouri.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

@hulsey95 It will be interesting to see the full report when it comes out to see how much of it was churches closing and how much it was churches leaving.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

It was reported at the #OPCGA that 9 new mission works were received or started during 2025 and 5 mission works were organized as particular congregations.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

Total membership in the OPC increased from the 33,566 reported last year to 33,941.

#OPCGA

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

While it is not required, the OPC’s Directory for Public Worship encourages the practice. “It is highly advisable that a congregation assemble for public worship at the beginning and the ending of the Lord's Day.”

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

It was reported at the #OPCGA that 68% of OPC churches and mission works reported holding evening worship services.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

@PNWOzarker @jonbrodhagen Agreed that even if the PCA had a delegated assembly it would be difficult and longer, and it having an SJC is understandable. On the other hand, it wasn’t until the PCUSA had 1.3 million communicants that it established its SJC in 1907.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

Unlike the PCA, the OPC does not have a Standing Judicial Commission. Instead, the General Assembly itself hears appeals of judicial cases concerning individuals and complaints against actions of sessions and presbyteries.

[Jim Stevenson @RevJimOPC]

Up next for #OPCGA is the report of the Committee on Appeals and Complaints. There are two judicial appeals and nine complaints (there had been ten, but one was withdrawn). Please pray for the presentation(s) and deliberation(s). Pray that Christ is honored throughout.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

Take heart! The gospel is bearing fruit and increasing in the whole world.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

“Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth…”

Colossians 1:5b-6

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

“Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, which has come to you, as indeed in the whole world it is bearing fruit and increasing—as it also does among you, since the day you heard it and understood the grace of God in truth…”

Colossians 1:5b-6

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

not only in all nations, but also in every department of human life. The Church must seek to conquer not only every man, but also the whole of man.”

- J. Gresham Machen, The New Testament

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

“Patient study should not be abandoned to the men of the world; men who have really received the blessed experience of the love of God in Christ must seek to bring that experience to bear upon the culture of the modern world, in order that Christ may rule,

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

I came across this from 1950 in the Presbyterian Guardian. Two things caught my attention - the animating nature of a discussion of Christianity and Politics (not much has changed) and the decision to move the evening service from 8pm to 7pm.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

@natepaschall I didn’t say the post argued for the removal of idolatry. I brought up the post because of the discussion of what is meant by interfering in matters of faith.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

The daily report on the #OPCGA is now up on the website: https://t.co/Dep9AiaQv9

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

Total membership in the OPC increased from the 33,566 reported last year to 33,941.

#OPCGA

[Jim Stevenson @RevJimOPC]

The statistician reported to the #OPCGA. The total membership at end of 2025 was 33,941 with 601 ministers, 24,973 communicant members, and 8,367 baptized children (non-communicant members). The total number of churches decreased by 3 to 297 but ... 1/2

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

@_mattesrj @brothernelson It is WCF 31.4 in the American version, since it combines the original WCF 31.1-2. And it does speak of the magistrate possibly requiring church synods to give advice (“if they be thereunto required by the civil magistrate”).

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

Rev. Archibald Alexander Allison, pastor of Emmaus OPC and stated clerk of the Presbytery of the Dakotas.

He was named after Archibald Alexander, the first professor at Princeton Seminary, and was ordained as a minister of the gospel on the same day as he, 199 years later.

[OPC | Orthodox Presbyterian Church @OrthodoxPC]

The moderator has appointed Rev. Archibald Allison as parliamentarian. #OPCGA

[OPC | Orthodox Presbyterian Church @OrthodoxPC]

Scenes from the 92nd General Assembly's opening service #OPCGA

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

@OrthodoxPC The video quality isn't a problem here for me. I find that it is actually a little less smooth near the middle on Facebook, but not a major problem.

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

@natepaschall The phrase “matters of faith” and the related phrase “controversies of faith” are found elsewhere in the WCF. I have written about the phrase in this article: https://t.co/khXlAsbAeb

[Peter Bringe @BringePeter]

@natepaschall First of all, that would not be the abolition of idolatry. Secondly, it would be wrong. Thirdly, interference in your faith is not the same as interference in matters of faith.