About the Pastor
Brett McNeill is serving as Reformation OPC's first pastor. Brett has been married to Jennifer since 1998. They have three daughters, Emma, Anna and Ellie. Brett received his Masters of Divinity from Westminster Seminary, California, in 2003 and was ordained to the Gospel Ministry in May 2005. To contact him please call (360) 507-1514 or you can email him.
Worship
Worship is the opportunity for the church — the people of God, the body of Christ, and the fellowship of the Spirit — to meet with her God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We meet with God in terms of the covenant that God has established with us, whereby he promises to be our God and he summons us to be His people.
Our worship is structured by this covenant relationship. God speaks to us in His Word (the call to worship, Scripture readings, the preaching of the Word, and the celebration of the Lord's Supper), and we respond with hymns of praise, prayer, and offerings.
For more on worship see What is Reformed Worship? by Rev. Eric B. Watkins.
Our Standards
Simply put we believe the Bible and all it teaches. This is why we say that the primary standard of our church is the Word of God, contained in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, our only infallible rule of faith and practice. Our secondary standards, subordinate to the Word of God, are the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms, which contain the system of doctrine found in Scripture. In other words, we believe that these accurately represent what the Bible teaches.
Why ROPC?
"Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe." — Hebrews 12:28
Proverbs 23:7 says "For as he thinks within himself, so he is." In other words, all of who we are and what we do flows from what we believe. This is why thinking correctly, especially about God, is so important. It is for this reason that, at Reformation OPC, we believe that the life of the church is inextricably bound to its theology.
That is why God calls us to handle his word carefully (1 Tim 2:15). To seek understanding in the rich truths of the Scriptures is necessary in order that we might offer acceptable worship to him and walk in his ways.
Here are a few short articles about what we believe:
- What's in a Name? (An Explanation of our name)
- A Brief Untechnical Statement of the Reformed Faith by Rev. B.B. Warfield
- What is Reformed Worship? by Rev. Eric B. Watkins
- Are Theology and Doctrine Necessary? by Rev. Brett McNeill
- Yea, Hath God Said...? by Rev. Larry Wilson
- Why We Believe in God by Rev. Alan Strange
- Why Does the OPC Baptize Infants? by Rev. Larry Wilson
- Why Join a Church? by Rev. Larry Wilson and Rev. Mark Brown
- Mark your calendars!
The 12th annual Lynwood OPC Reformed Conference will be held on Friday, March 2nd and Saturday, March 3rd. The featured speaker, Dr. David VanDrunen of Westminster Theological Seminary will be discussing Recharting the Reformed Map for City of God & City of Man.
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Read the article, Born Amid Hardship from New Horizons (July 2005) about Reformation OPC; and the follow up article in the December 2005 New Horizons.
Read the July 2007 article from New Horizon's magazine on Reformation OPC!
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