The RPCUS was established in 1983, subscribes to the unrevised[1] Westminster Confession and upholds biblical inerrancy.
They inquired into the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, but found that they had not yet settled on how to handle theonomy, so they formed their own denomination.
After Morecraft ran for Congress in Georgia' s 7th District in 1986, losing in the general election to incumbent Democrat George Darden, the denomination saw some growth in the Atlanta area.
The split was due, in part, to the RPCUS's failure to establish and maintain a system of church discipline and inability to finalize on a constitution.
In 2015, Morecraft transferred his membership to Reformed Presbyterian Church – Hanover Presbytery as the result of judicial processes against him within the denomination.
[8] He immediately founded Heritage Presbyterian Church affiliated with that denomination, also located in Cumming, Georgia.
[18][19] The RPCUS was involved in the creation of Christ College in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1990, which was located at the former Jones Memorial Library.
[25] The seminary's final term was winter of 2014 with a course module titled "Providence and History" in January.