Welcome to a Reformed Church

”Who are these guys?” That was the question the teenage Daniel R. Hyde posed to his father when he first encountered “Reformed” believers. With their unique beliefs and practices, these Christians didn’t fit any of the categories in his mind. Not so many years later, Hyde is now Rev. Daniel R. Hyde, a pastor of a Reformed church. Recognizing that many are on the outside looking in, just as he once was, he wrote Welcome to a Reformed Church: A Guide for Pilgrims to explain what Reformed churches believe and why they structure their life and worship as they do. In layman’s terms, Rev. Hyde sketches the historical roots of the Reformed churches, their scriptural and confessional basis, their key beliefs, and the ways in which those beliefs are put into practice. The result is a roadmap for those encountering the Reformed world for the first time and a primer for those who want to know more about their Reformed heritage.

Publisher: Ligonier Ministries
Type: Paperback
ISBN:
9781567692037

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Daniel R. Hyde is the pastor of the Oceanside United Reformed Church in Carlsbad/Oceanside, California, a congregation of the United Reformed Churches in North America. A native of Long Beach, California, Rev. Hyde earned his master of divinity degree from Westminster Seminary California and his master of theology in reformation and post-reformation theology at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. Rev. Hyde has written a number of books, including Jesus Loves the Little Children, The Good Confession, and In Living Color. He also has written numerous articles and chapters for books. He lives in Oceanside with his wife, their sons, and their dachshund.

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‘Daniel Hyde's popular introduction to the Reformed faith will provide a wonderful tool for busy pastors who are looking for help in welcoming new believers into membership in the local church. Welcome to a Reformed Church will also serve as a kind of road map for those who are new to the Reformed faith- to its history, confessions, doctrinal commitments, and patterns of worship and ministry. In its own way, this book is a great example of the kind of 'hospitality' Reformed churches are called to show those whom the Lord is gathering in their fellowship by His Spirit and Word’ Dr. Cornelis Venema: President and professor of doctrina studies, Mid-America Reformed Seminary Dyer , Indiana