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
The PCA and the Right Against Self-Incrimination: Against Overture 14 at the PCA General Assembly
Overture 14 seeks to change BCO 35-1 to read that "church officers under accusation with regards to doctrinal views shall be required to testify before the court."
At the 2015 General Assembly in Chattanooga, the PCA rejected an overture to require an accused officer to testify against himself. Doctrinal charges must be proved by public materials and sermons, rather than aggressive prosecution. At the GA in Mobile, however, Providence Presbytery has raised this same issue again through Overture 14, which seeks to... Continue Reading
Confessing Sin One Church Officer at a Time
A call for PCA members to confess their sin of racism by the book — that is, by the Book of Church Order.
I would like for this year’s PCA Assembly to answer all the related overtures [on the sin of racism] by sending them back to the courts from which they originated to be dealt with according to our rules of discipline. Fully a third of our BCO is devoted to how our courts should deal with... Continue Reading
Overtures Take Different Approaches on Race
These overtures will be considered by the Overtures Committee
“The overture also calls the PCA to lament the decades it took to address the issue and its failure to preach and embody the full truth of Scripture on race-related matters. It calls on church courts to include questions about how the Gospel addresses issues of race and integration in the examination of candidates for... Continue Reading
Three Proposals for Racial Reconciliation Overtures in the PCA
As the calendar turns and thoughts begin to turn to the general assembly, it is important that we think about this matter in a biblically principled manner.
We should avoid diverting the church from its spiritual mission by means of permanent committees for social justice. Sean Lucas’ book clearly shows the peril to a Christian church of embracing a mission of social change or justice. It was PCUS’s Permanent Committee on Social and Moral Welfare that played a significant role in leading... Continue Reading
Overture 1 Sent to the PCA’s 44th General Assembly: Steps Towards Racial Reconciliation
The 44th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America will meet in Mobile, Ala., June 20-24, 2016
Therefore be it resolved, that, before our Lord, the 44th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America exhorts all its members, especially its officers, to examine themselves in the light of Scripture to determine if there be any unconfessed and unrepentant sins of partiality, favoritism, or prejudice among them (Gn. 1:26-27, Eph. 2:14-22, Jas.... Continue Reading
Lessons Learned From The Civil Rights Resolution At The 2015 PCA General Assembly
Five encouraging observations and lessons on how the PCA GA handled the Civil Rights Resolution
How then do we add feet to our repentance regarding the Civil Rights era, while maintaining this purely spiritual mission and authority? That is what we will need to work out in the year to come in our sessions and presbyteries. I might suggest that we begin by looking to the book of Philemon as... Continue Reading
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