Confessional Baptist Association: Difference between revisions

The association's churches all subscribe to the [[Second London Baptist Confession (1689)]]. The association's General Assembly has noted that their adherence to this Confession means "the model for (association) churches is [[Puritanism|Puritan]] and not one of a number of competing contemporary ones."<ref name=principle>{{cite web|title=A Position Paper Concerning the Regulative Principle of Worship | author=Theology Committee of the Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America | publisher=Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America | date=March 8, 2001 | url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/churchplantmedia-cms/arbca_carlisle_pa/regulative-principle.pdf | access-date=November 4, 2014}}</ref>

In 2000, ARBCA merged with the ''Reformed Baptist Mission Services (RBMS)'', a foreign missions organization.<ref name=autobio>{{cite web|url=http://www.arbca.com/history|title=History|publisher=Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America|access-date=2013-05-26}}</ref> RBMS, though founded 12 years before the ARBCA,<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of the Baptists |page=472|year=2009|first=William H. |last=Brackney|author-link=William H. Brackney| isbn=978-0-8108-5622-6|publisher=Scarecrow Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Noz7WtnOV-kC&pg=PA472}}</ref> had acted as the foreign mission arm of the association, until the dissolution of ARBCA in 2022.<ref name="EAR"/>

The association is recognized by the U.S. Department of Defense as an endorsing agency for United States military chaplains.<ref>{{cite web|title=Armed Forces Chaplains Board Endorsements | publisher=US Department of Defense | url=http://prhome.defense.gov/RFM/MPP/AFCB/Endorsements.aspx | access-date=November 4, 2014}}</ref>