A Sheep Speaks: A Testimony to the National Partnership, Part 5
This is written not in belligerence and quarreling, nor a need to ‘fight a culture war,’… but as a frank, unfettered testimony to how your deeds appear to someone in the pews.
If you will accept it, this is written not in belligerence and quarreling, nor to fulfill a salacious need to ‘fight a culture war’ or engage in doom-mongering, but to give you a frank, unfettered testimony to how your deeds appear to someone in the pews; and judging by the conversations and correspondence I have... Continue Reading
A Sheep Speaks: A Testimony to the National Partnership, Part Four
He who signs a document assents to the veracity thereof, and so the arguments of the Letter might be deemed your own, even if accepted by others as well.
You also say that “strangers have attacked strangers behind the safe confines of computers, news agencies, and conferences,” which “proliferates fear and distrust,” and that “there will always be people who are all about power.” In all of this I remind you that you hide yourselves behind confines safer than the things you mention here,... Continue Reading
A Sheep Speaks: A Testimony to the National Partnership, Part Three
He who engages in denominational politics, regardless of his faction, must heed the danger of activism; getting bogged down with politicking adversely harms the common work of ministry.
And so also do some say that such people in our own midst experience this lust unchosen, that it is largely fixed and unlikely to ever dissipate in this life, and that it would be unfair to deprive them of participation in something that others are allowed to experience. You seem to accept this position,... Continue Reading
A Sheep Speaks: A Testimony to the National Partnership, Part Two
Apologize also for the offense you have caused your brethren and extol others to not follow in the way of your wrongdoing.
In your reaction against others in the denomination you have given yourselves to a form of organization and methods that are not acceptable, and now the only way that you can you remove the offense of your unjustified secret political machinations is by openly repenting of them. Write a letter and post it at A... Continue Reading
A Sheep Speaks: A Testimony to the National Partnership, Part One
He who uses craft and secrecy can little object if others do so more adeptly in response.
Now in discussing this we come to the question of the email leak and to the objection that it was an unlawful act of trafficking in confidential intellectual property that discredits the leaker and makes any criticism of you that is built upon the leaked materials illegitimate. The leak was unsavory, and on its first... Continue Reading
National Partnership Called to Repentance
Saddened and grieved by what the National Partnership emails disclosed.
I call on all members of the National Partnership to repent publicly of insults, besmirching the church, and obstructing the work of the church councils. I call on you to relinquish your committee memberships. I hope that some of you will. But for those who don’t, I plead that you find another denomination more to... Continue Reading
First Presbyterian Church Session, Ft. Oglethorpe, GA, Report on the National Partnership
A report from the Session of First Presbyterian Church, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., on the National Partnership, a group within the Presbyterian Church in America.
In response to questions regarding the pastor’s role in disseminating files associated with the National Partnership that had previously been made public, Session was forced to consider the nature of those files before making any other determination. The report of that study is below. You may have been alarmed at the recent circulation of files... Continue Reading
The Realpolitik of the PCA National Partnership
The National Partnership, while established in “confidence,” is a clearly organized political apparatus within the Presbyterian Church in America.
It is clear that, regardless of whatever disclaimers they proffer, and whatever misgivings its members have expressed in the past concerning the church’s enthusiasm for partisan politics in the national sphere, the National Partnership has essentially become a political party within its own denomination. It is time that the leadership of the National Partnership at... Continue Reading
Making Sausage with the National Partnership
On the evening of October 26, I (along with others) was sent a cache of emails exchanged among the leadership of the National Partnership.
Among their efforts is identifying the men who their members should not vote for if they are nominated for committees or agencies. For instance, one well known Ruling Elder with a well-earned reputation for faithful service to the Lord and the PCA was recently nominated to serve on the Standing Judicial Commission. In one email... Continue Reading
Tears for the National Partnership™
Whether it was Presbyleaks, or NatPartnergate or the “We Got Owned Scandal,” the National Partnership emails (or some portion?) from 2013-2021 were . . . forwarded, leaked, stolen, made available.
There is a profound and disturbing conundrum humming in the background of these eight years and many emails: the secrecy of the majority. By repeated assertion and articulated reasoning, these emails show a small group of officers claiming to stand for the majority in our communion. Their discussion manifests a concern to ensure that the... Continue Reading
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