PCA GA: Overtures Committee Recommends Adoption of Overture 43 On Racial Reconciliation
Overture 43 as amended and approved by the Overtures Committee is being recommended to the PCA General Assembly for its consideration
On Monday, June 20, the Overtures Committee considered these overtures and voted to recommend that Overture 43 from Potomac Presbytery be answered in the affirmative as amended, and all other overtures be answered with reference to Overture 43. The action of the Overtures Committee, which adopted it by a vote of 8 5-3, is a... Continue Reading
Review and Comparison of PCA 2016 GA Racial Repentance Overtures
Assessing overtures coming before the PCA General Assembly on repentance for racial sins in the PCA going back to the Civil Rights era.
Overtures calling for both propose we take action at both the denominational level and the local level. I find myself in favor of this approach. Admittedly without offering an extended defense of my opinion, let me briefly highlight the key considerations persuading me. First, I believe the covenantal considerations found in Ezra and Nehemiah’s examples... Continue Reading
Facts and Myths for the PCA on Racial Reconciliation
In support of Overtures 45 and 53 as the way forward as the PCA General considers the issue of racial reconciliation.
After all, how can we solve problems if we cannot state specific, identifiable, perhaps quantifiable issues that must be addressed? How can we learn about those specific problems if we do not take the time to ferret out the details and perform something like a root cause analysis? And how can we reach a final... Continue Reading
The PCA’s Version of Executive Orders
Formed just 9 years ago, an emboldened CMC has rapidly started to resemble the old PCUSA’s General Assembly Council.
In any event, let it be known that the CMC is on record pace to replicate other mainline wrecking balls. Are we so sure that we are really morally superior to those past Presbyterians who now pathetically limp along? Short of such conceit, we should disprove the usurpation by acting promptly to correct or defeat... Continue Reading
Thornwell ‘Responds’ to Concerns About Overture 14 at the PCA General Assembly
Thornwell summarized the flaw in arguing for an analogy between civil courts and spiritual courts and provided a necessary correction to those in his time as well as our own.
Quoted below is an extract from a journal article in which Thornwell discussed the revisions proposed to the Book of Discipline. In this section, Thornwell addressed critics of the “demand and receive” language. Not only did Thornwell make clear that the committee added the language to bring clarity to existing principle but he also expressed... Continue Reading
Didn’t We Just Do This? Recent PCA Proposals to Ordain Women to Church Office – Part 3
“The question of the role of women in the Church is not a new or unstudied issue….the proposed study committee is unlikely to break new ground or shed new insights” (37th GA, 2009).
One of the contentions of the CMC is that the PCA has a history of passivity and even resistance to discussing the role of women in the church. However, a review of recent history will attest to the fact that the PCA does not have a history of passivity in discussing the role of women... Continue Reading
Didn’t We Just Do This? Recent PCA Proposals to Ordain Women to Church Office – Part 2
“The question of the role of women in the Church is not a new or unstudied issue….the proposed study committee is unlikely to break new ground or shed new insights” (37th GA, 2009).
One of the contentions of the CMC is that the PCA has a history of passivity and even resistance to discussing the role of women in the church. However, a review of recent history will attest to the fact that the PCA does not have a history of passivity in discussing the role of women... Continue Reading
Does Polity Trump Theology on the PCA Standing Judicial Commission? Part Two
A continuing assessment of the PCA Standing Judicial Commission's decision in Case 2012-5, Hedman vs. Pacific Northwest Presbytery.
The fact of the matter is that any doctrine that is not upheld is worthless. It becomes a doctrine that we are not willing to practice and, therefore, a doctrine that we do not really believe. That is where the PCA is at this time in her history. By these judicial decisions that elevate church... Continue Reading
Didn’t We Just Do This? Recent PCA Proposals to Ordain Women to Church Office – Part 1
“The question of the role of women in the Church is not a new or unstudied issue….the proposed study committee is unlikely to break new ground or shed new insights” (37th GA, 2009).
One of the contentions of the CMC is that the PCA has a history of passivity and even resistance to discussing the role of women in the church. However, a review of recent history will attest to the fact that the PCA does not have a history of passivity in discussing the role of women... Continue Reading
PCA General Assembly Should Not Approve CMC’s Recommendation to Form A Study Committee on Women Serving in Ministry
The PCA Cooperative Ministries Committee’s recommendation to form a study committee on the issue of women serving in the ministry of the church should be rejected.
Moreover, what is being overlooked by the CMC and AC in this recommendation is that the “biblical basis, theology, history, nature, and authority of ordination,” “the biblical nature and function of the office of deacon,” and “the ordination or commissioning of deacons/deaconesses” have already been studied, explored and settled. Not only has this happened through... Continue Reading
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