Purity, Mixture, and Christ's Headship

#Overview

This subarticle gives the chapter a place for pastoral realism about purity while preserving Christ's supreme rule over the church.

How the church may be more or less pure, and why Christ alone remains its head.

#Key topics

• Purity
• Christ's headship
• Church decline

These topics mark the doctrinal and navigational center of the page ¹.

#The visible church and Christ's headship

This chapter distinguishes the catholic church from the visible church and keeps Christ's headship central as the wiki moves into membership and ordinances ¹.

#Ordinances and purity

The child pages help the reader read the church as an ordered community rather than as an abstract idea.

#Study note

This page is a navigation anchor for ecclesiology, membership, and church-order topics elsewhere in the site.

#Sources

• [1] RPCNA convictions - Official constitutional landing page.
• [2] OPC Westminster Confession of Faith - Public full-text host used as an accessible article reference.

#Rights note

Summary-first treatment only. ²