From the website of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, This Day in OPC History:
Go here to read the rest of the story and to learn who kept the PCA, RPCES and the OPC from uniting.
June 3
Joining and Receiving
On June 3, 1981, the last full day of the 48th General Assembly of the OPC that met at Geneva College, the Committee on Ecumenicity and Interchurch Relations brought its recommendation regarding “Joining and Receiving.” “J and R,” as it was commonly abbreviated, was an ambitious plan to unite into one body three churches, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church in America, and Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod. Bypassing a protracted process of negotiated merger, the plan called for the OPC and the RPCES to join and be received by the larger PCA. Noting that the RPCES had approved "J and R" three days earlier, the CEIR emphatically urged that the OPC could only come to one conclusion regarding this plan: it “must unite with these churches.”
Go here to read the rest of the story and to learn who kept the PCA, RPCES and the OPC from uniting.
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