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Hello to the original author and all editors of this page, thank you for the interest and research you've put into this. Please excuse my editing at first without discussion or explanation - I've only just found how to use this talk page!
The EPC Code is not online (yet); I have a hard copy, but as it isn't published, I accept that it therefore can't be used as a source.
Wallace Thompson is not the current Convenor of the Public Morals Committee, and is at present no more a 'leading member' of the church than any other elder of one of its congregations. Even if he were, his private membership of other organisations totally unconnected to the church is completely irrelevant to an article about the EPC.
Worship: neither 'minimalist' nor 'regulative' appears in the Westminster Confession, but 'regulative principle' is an accepted term leading straight to a Wikipedia article, whereas 'minimalist conception of worship' is a more subjective term. Therefore I respectfully submit that 'regulative' better communicates the sense here.
International links: The page you cite about the EPC and the Dutch church actually says: "The REC has lost a number of conservative member churches upset by the council's refusal to expel the Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland-synodaal despite the 1979 decision of the GKN-s to allow the ordination of practicing homosexuals." It doesn't specify the EPC (which I think left earlier than that, but have no written backup); further down on the page it says: "Other ICRC members which were formerly in the REC include the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ireland", not linking it with any particular issue.
The following article makes it clear that the homosexual issue was only one of several, and that the root of the objection was a different attitude to Scripture: http://www.reformedreflections.ca/articles/th-trouble-for-ecumenical-synod%20.html Therefore I would be happy to leave in your reference to the homosexual issue, but include further clarification based on this second source. Would you be okay with that?
I have taken out the word 'small' describing the denominations connected to the Caleb Foundation, as many of them are not - e.g. Baptists have 94 congregations, Free Pres 61, Congregational 25.
Clarella (talk) 00:29, 26 February 2013 (UTC)Reply
I disagree - I believe the references to WT's affiliations should be removed until you can prove that they are relevant to giving a neutral, balanced picture of the EPC. Otherwise the impression given is that the EPC has a distinct political tone, for which you have no evidence.
Clarella (talk) 23:02, 1 March 2013 (UTC)Reply