I think most members (if not all) of this discussion group are in agreement with our rejection of NPP/Auburn Avenue/Federal Vision teaching, but is forming a new denomination really the way to respond to it? Let's be honest. This whole debate takes place mostly in discussion groups such as this one and I wonder how many of the typical "men in the pew" are really aware of it. I am, but like anybody reading this thread, these things matter to us and we keep ourselves informed. Although I am not seminary trained, I humbly consider myself more theologically aware and perceptive than most laymen due my own study. And when I listened to a taped debate between Michael Horton and Douglas Wilson on this very issue, I was confused. It is a complicated issue that very few laymen are even aware of and I doubt that the discussion in the fellowship hall after church on Sunday is about the NPP/AA/FV controversy.

So I ask myself and this august body of Highwaymen (and women), How many people is the ERPC going to attract to form their churches? If in fact this denomination is being created largely in reaction to the NPP/Auburn Ave./Federal Vision debate, only those malcontents within the PCA and OPC will leave and join the ERPC.

Forming a new denomination from these folks sounds like a losing proposition to me, but I'm just giving my opinion. How do the other folks in this group feel about it?