Save the dates! RCSS and African Reformed Churches (ARC) will be hosting a conference with the theme “Justification by faith alone: Recovering law and gospel” in Cape Town, South Africa, on 20 and 21 June 2025. There is no charge to attend the conference. The venue is Kenilworth Community PresbyterianContinue Reading
By Rev. Simon Jooste As South Africa’s second-largest metropolis (after Johannesburg), Cape Town not only has a rich history but is also a melting pot of scenic views, cuisines and skin colours. She boasts incredible beauty but also thrombotic veins of prejudice and inequality, which are still fed by theContinue Reading
THE Reformed faith includes reference to total inability, unconditional election, the limited efficiency of Christ’s satisfaction, irresistible grace and the perseverance of the saints not as the sum total of the church’s confession, but as elements that can be understood only in the context of a larger body of teachingContinue Reading
[. . .] There are real problems with ignoring original context and original intent. First, we effectively lose the Scriptures. If the Scriptures really mean what they mean to this reader and that reader (no matter if those readings contradict each other), then there is no text of Scripture. TheContinue Reading
Dear Friend in Christ, In this “RCSS member snapshot”, we feature Deana, the wife of Simon Jooste, the minister of RCSS. Deana serves the church by hosting regular ladies’ prayer and fellowship meetings at her home or online and visiting members of the congregation. She particularly enjoys teaching Sunday School,Continue Reading
Thank you for worshipping with us. We, the consistory of RCSS, hope to welcome you to the Lord’s Table as soon as possible. But first we would like to get to know you better. We believe and confess that the Lord’s Supper is a weighty personal and communal participation inContinue Reading
RCSS Pastor Rev. Dr Simon Jooste gave two presentations at the Ratio Christi Conference in Cape Town on 3 August 2024. The title of the first presentation is “God’s justice is not ‘social justice’: an apologetics perspective”. Social justice movements have swept the globe, leaving many Christians to believe thatContinue Reading
This is an edited transcript of a Heidelminicast by Dr. R. Scott Clark. […] The very category of “replacement” is foreign to Reformed theology because it assumes a Dispensational Israelio-centric way of thinking about the history of redemption […] It assumes that a temporary national people was, in fact, intendedContinue Reading
By Simon Jooste Reformed Christians understand the significance of the Reformation and its effect on global Christianity. In Africa, there was an extended series of Reformed missions from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries. But this was not the first time orthodox doctrine was taught on the continent. AfricaContinue Reading
Pastor Chris Gordon and Pastor Dan Borvan discuss the importance of preaching from the perspective that the Bible progressively reveals more and more about the salvation of Christ. They talk about how accurately to apply that knowledge to the Christian life. The conversation extends to concern over the artificial presentationContinue Reading
By Brad Isbell Thesis: No confessional Presbyterian church will long remain confessional or Presbyterian if it loses Reformed worship. First, some definitions: Confessional: orthodox soteriology and doctrine (doctrine of God, Christology, covenant) according to the Reformed confessions. Presbyterian: government by ordained male (per scripture) elders organized in accountable, graded courts.Continue Reading
Dr. R. Scott Clark and Pastor Chris Gordon dive into the current state of Israel and how it can cause people to look to biblical prophecy for answers. They discuss and dispel the dispensational view and clearly define who the true Israel is. They go through Scripture to parse outContinue Reading