At that time the Christian Reformed Church had adopted three doctrinal points on the subject of common grace.

Reverends Herman Hoeksema, George Ophoff, and Henry Danhof rejected these three points and maintained them to be contrary to the Reformed confessions of faith.

The men objected to this deposition also from a church political point of view, arguing that only the consistory has the right to depose their minister, not a classis.

[5] The Protestant Reformed Churches grew rapidly in the following years, but in the 1950s the denomination struggled because of internal, doctrinal controversies in defense of the unconditionality of the Covenant of Grace.

That year 60% of the denomination membership, the so-called "DeWolf Group", formed the Orthodox Protestant Reformed Church (OPRC).

[7][8][9] In 2021–2022, a number of pastors and elders, along with hundreds of members of the PRC left to establish a new denomination named the "Reformed Protestant Church."

The impacted congregations included Byron Center, Michigan, Dyer, Indiana, Hull, Iowa, and Edmonton, Canada.

Andrew Lanning stated that "the doctrinal issue itself is the ABC’s of the gospel and the 123’s of the covenant: Fellowship with God is by grace and is unconditional.

The turmoil within the CRCNA resulted in a number of former CRC members joining local Protestant Reformed Churches.

Audred Spriensma and a number of CRC families from Alamosa, Colorado joined the Protestant Reformed Church in 1993.

[12] The PRC believes that the Bible is the infallible and inerrantly inspired word of God and that the message therein is well summarized in the Three Forms of Unity: the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, and the Canons of Dordt.

Article 69 of the church order adopted by the Synod of Dordt states that: "In the churches only the 150 Psalms of David, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Twelve Articles of Faith, the Songs of Mary, Zacharias, and Simeon, the Morning and Evening Hymns, and the Hymn of Prayer before the sermon shall be sung."

Only male members who have made a public confession of faith and are in good standing may vote for church officers or be ordained.

[23] In 2005, the Synod of the PRC closed the denomination's missionary field work in Ghana, due to a lack of membership.

[24] To this end, Protestant Reformed parents maintain twelve primary and three high schools for the education of approximately 1500 children.

The 2009 PRC Synod forbad office bearers from using home education for their children in most situations, stating that an office bearer is "expected to send his children to those (PRC) schools unless there are special circumstances judged by his consistory to be valid.