The PCA’s Directory for Worship: A Conversation with the Ad Interim Committee
With Derek Radney, Joel St. Clair, Nate Shurden, and Chad van Dixhoorn
Derek Radney speaks with Nate Shurden, Joel St. Clair, and Chad van Dixhoorn about the Directory for Worship and the work of the Ad Interim Committee. The conversation covers the committee’s process, the historical Reformed background of the directory, and the hope that it will serve the worship, unity, and long-term health of the PCA.
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Derek Radney has served as a pastor at Trinity Church (PCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, since 2012, after studying at Wake Forest University, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Duke Divinity School. He and his wife, Sally, were married in 2005 and have four children.
Joel St. Clair (MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary) is the Senior Pastor of Mosaic Community Church in Silver Spring, Maryland. He coaches youth soccer, serves as a guest lecturer at Reformed Theological Seminary, and has contributed to Heal Us, Emmanuel. He lives in Silver Spring with his wife and four children.
Nate Shurden is the Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Franklin, TN. Before moving to Franklin to plant Cornerstone, Nate served as Minister of Discipleship & Young Adults at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, MS, and the Assistant Editor of reformation21, the online magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Nate is a graduate of Bannockburn College (Franklin, TN) and Reformed Theological Seminary (Jackson, MS). Nate is an adjunct professor at New College Franklin and a visiting lecturer at Reformed Theological Seminary (Nashville/Atlanta). Nate is a regular contributor to Ligonier Ministries, Christward Collective, and He Reads Truth. Nate has been married to Christy for twenty-five years, and they have five children.
Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn is Professor of Church History and Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte and a leading scholar of the Westminster Assembly. He is ordained in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and has served as a pastor in Cambridge, U.K., and Vienna, Virginia. He and his wife, Emily, have five children and a son-in-law.
Listening now. Very informative and measured. Thank you for your work, gentlemen!
I liked the comment that this was more Reformed inspiration, not Reformed legislation, on matters on which the PCA is not yet united, and that the nobody on the committee got everything they wanted, but still voted unanimously. Hopefully a model for the wider PCA.
I do think the chapters on Sabbath and Family Worship, being made fully constitutional, will in fact make the PCA more uniform *and* more Reformed. We will have to follow those chapters, and that will have an effect on the culture of the PCA.