Missing Mandate and Better Metrics: Understanding the 2017 PCA General Assembly
If broad churchmen were looking for a mandate to increase female ordination in the PCA, based on a concessive study, it didn’t happen at this PCA General Assembly.
To be encouraged: after 8-9 years of sustained badgering, virtue signaling, and nagging, the vaunted study of women’s roles has now been completed, and barely anything is settled. There’s nothing left but to amend the constitution—which in its present form is clear and offers little consolation to those who’ve given so much of themselves to... Continue Reading
A Big Moment for the PCA
In a time when the cultural winds are blowing so strong in support of the normalization of homosexuality and other forms of sexual perversion Christians do well to articulate God’s standard all the more clearly.
If you are a commissioner at this year’s GA I urge you to vote in favor of Overture 2. If you are a member of a PCA church I urge you to pray that it passes. In recent months we have become aware that those opposing such actions as Overture 2 are well organized, ready to “fight,”... Continue Reading
Transgenderism Comes to the PCA?
A Sober Look at the PCA Report On “Women Serving in the Ministry of the Church” before the 45th GA.
How can there be multiple conflicting views that are all in accord with Scripture? By condoning multiple practices and views, the committee does not clarify and allows those who would undermine the church’s standard to continue to practice without any constraint. It is difficult to address aberrant views and practices since those who have them... Continue Reading
Some Last Minute Thoughts About Overture 2
Overture 2 was always more of a beginning than an end of the work that lies ahead of us, but if we are unwilling even to make a start of that work then what hope does the PCA have of standing in the evil day?
All of these factors will inevitably create considerable agitation within our denomination to take a more Laodicean approach and end our opposition to homosexual marriage. Those who doubt this need only look at what has happened in the mainline denominations and in formerly evangelical denominations, including our closest denominational analogue, the CRC. We also need... Continue Reading
My Hopes for General Assembly 2017
Most of all I hope to, along with our Lord’s church, be more thoroughly conformed to Christ.
The following are a few hopes I have for myself during that week and beyond: That I would pray before I speak. That I would take my thoughts captive for Christ. That I would be hopeful and not cynical. That I would assume the best about my brothers with whom I disagree. That I would rejoice in any news that... Continue Reading
Review of the Ad-Interim Committee’s Report On Women Serving In The Ministry Of The Church
Evangelicals seem to be confused about what the Bible teaches about the roles of men and women in the life of the church.
My suggestion is that the Assembly thank the committee for its work and send the report to the Presbyteries for study. The report establishes guidelines for in-depth discussion. If there are any substantive actions to be taken, they must come from the Presbyteries. Because, even if the report is adopted, it would have no binding... Continue Reading
Slow to Speak
Civility on the Floor of the PCA General Assembly
I realize that we all do not agree on every issue in the PCA. I even realize that there are sharp disagreements about significant matters in the PCA. But it would do us all well to remember that in the midst of our disagreement, we are brothers. The belief that Jesus Christ is fully God,... Continue Reading
The Godly Commissioner
Getting it Right in Greensboro
A serious problem arises, however, when networks and partnerships constituted of PCA teaching and ruling elders go beyond public and transparent ministry to private meetings and ecclesiastical intrigues for the purpose of winning votes and transforming the denomination. If a real time, vote-by-vote, running conversation on the assembly floor becomes a regular practice by denominational... Continue Reading
Stirred With Questions from the PCA Study Report on the Role of Women in the Church
Some questions that the Committee may not have dealt with adequately; thus needing to understand some things better.
The Committee carefully describes the diversity within the PCA. Some of our churches encourage women to teach classes to everyone including men, and others not. In some churches women read Scripture and lead in prayer in public worship, in others not. Some have women deaconesses, others not, and some deliberately do not ordain men as... Continue Reading
James River Presbytery Overtures the PCA 45th GA to Amend Article IX in the RAO
Overture 18 asks the General Assembly to amend the Rules of Assembly Operations (RAO) IX so that ad interim committees may only be formed in response to presbytery overtures.
The James River Presbytery approved an overture at its April 8, 2017 Stated Meeting, asking the 45th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America to amend the Rules of Assembly Operation (RAO) Article IX by inserting a new paragraph 9-2. This new paragraph, if amended, would state: “Recommendations for the appointment of ad-interim or study... Continue Reading
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