As we reflect on the PCA’s beginnings in this golden anniversary year, there are four areas of our founding for which we might be thankful—and they chart the pathway for our future.

Everything created by God is good and is to be received gratefully.

He has moved toward you in your sin and sorrow, and when you offer your presence to others, you proclaim something better than what the world has to offer.

Where several missions organizations gave up, MTW, in partnership with Redeemer City to City, prayerfully recruited, trained, and sent church planters all over Tokyo.

God’s creation is vast and complex — an infinitely interconnected puzzle of creatures and plants, minerals and microorganisms, all fitting together in a delicate ecological balance.

Schaeffer rejected debates in favor of discussions, seeking to win skeptics over as friends.

For each of us, there are milestones we must hold dear. Which is why God tells us repeatedly, in the Old Testament and the New, to take time to remember.

As we pause on this anniversary to consider our denomination as well as the world around us, how are our bridges faring?

Thinking through our stories, we find our place in His story. God is writing an ongoing story in your life and in mine.

For the Christian, our citizenship in any nation aims to be “worthy of the gospel of Christ” (Philippians 1:27), not merely worthy of that political state.