July 19 Today in OPC History

On July 19, 1968, John Frame was ordained by the Presbytery of Ohio to serve as a teacher at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Frame would minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church for the next twenty-one years. Denominationally, he was elected chairman of the Committee to Study the Matter of Abortion, and served on the Committee on the Baptism and Gifts of the Holy Spirit. He also served as counsel in the case of Arnold Kress regarding prophecy and tongues, the first appeal heard at a General Assembly in the history of the OPC, in 1976.

Frame was a leading advocate of the OPC’s “Joining and Receiving” with the Presbyterian Church in America in 1981 and 1986. After both attempts failed, the presbyteries of the PCA declining in 1981, and the 53rd General Assembly declining in 1986, he would transfer his membership to the Presbytery of the Pacific in the PCA in 1989. Since 2000, he has served as Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy at the Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, Florida.

Picture: John Frame (middle) with C. Everett Koop (left) and Edmund Clowney (right)