In keeping with the journalistic tradition of looking back at the recent past, we present the top 50 stories of the year that were read on The Aquila Report site based on the number of hits. We will present the 50 stories in groups of 10 to run on five lists on consecutive days. Here are numbers 11-20.
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In keeping with the journalistic tradition of looking back at the recent past, we present the top 50 stories of the year that were read on The Aquila Report site based on the number of hits. We will present the 50 stories in groups of 10 to run on five lists on consecutive days. Here are numbers 11-20:
“Please pray for the Lord’s mercy and grace as I seek to make right the deeply wrong sins I have committed against my wife and family, and that in His time and way He will bring about redemption and restoration in our marriage, for His glory.”
Audience members lined up to share personal stories and ask questions about combating Christian nationalism while maintaining community relationships. Moscow City Councilor Julia Parker was first to the mike, asking how to “be a good, welcoming, kind community” while fighting “this Christian nationalist church.”
The decision to disaffiliate comes months after senior pastor Burk Parsons was suspended indefinitely from the pulpit after being found ‘guilty ‘of unbecoming pastoral conduct by the PCA’s Central Florida Presbytery. Parsons previously plead guilty to similar charges in 2019 and received admonition at that time.
We must distinguish between offense given and offense taken. Indeed, good men, if not associated loved ones, were unfortunately and unnecessarily offended, but whose intention was it to act in a way that would necessarily stir up such strife about named individuals? Certainly not Bryan Chapell’s! Indeed, Bryan is 100% responsible for his thoughts that resulted in waving a list of names in front of a camera, but it would be a reckless over-simplification to hold him equally culpable for the providence that involved the calculating wills of others.
“Leading up to this member-initiated congregational meeting, two Q&A sessions were scheduled for members to hear from the Session and for the Session to listen to the members of Saint Andrew’s Chapel. We are trusting that Jesus Christ, as King and Head of the church, will continue to guide, lead, and protect His flock as we live each day coram Deo.”
While many in the PCA try to find conflict inside the church behind every pew, throughout the last eight years I have seen numerous examples of elders in the PCA turning a blind eye toward the inherent conflict between the church and the world…What they fail to acknowledge (or perhaps understand) is that the church and the kingdom are built through conflict with the culture because the culture is in conflict with God.
…Fair was a Senior Pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church in Tulsa. Other elders at the church shared a statement: “On Thursday, October 23rd, the church leadership of Christ Presbyterian Church was made aware of the arrest of Senior Pastor Jeremy Fair. The church leadership immediately met and placed Jeremy Fair on indefinite leave, and are now working within the denomination’s prescribed process. This is an ongoing investigation and we do not have all the details at this time.”
That the 52nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America does hereby join with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (221st General Synod) and with the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America (193rd Synod) in condemning without distinction any theological or political teaching which posits a superiority of race or ethnic identity born of immutable human characteristics, and does call to repentance any who would promote or associate themselves with such teaching, either by commission or omission.
12 The Foster Report Is A Credible Report: Functional Female Officers in the PCA
The project was led by Michael Foster, a former PCA pastor. The report uncovers “evidence gathered from publicly available websites, live streams, and church documents” that demonstrates that a non-negligible portion of the PCA (7.3% by their estimates) publicly list women in official and titled leadership roles that, according to Foster and his coauthors, “function in officer-like ways, both in public worship and in the governance of the church.”
It appears we can tolerate wickedness of the worst kind in this country (and keep silent about it), but if you mention something about CN and the Kingship of Christ over all things, then many Christian leaders go crazy with rage. You may be disciplined by the church for holding to such a heresy. Whoever would have thought that to apply the Law of God to the civil realm would ever be controversial, especially among Presbyterians? Whoever would have thought that the Kingship of Christ over all areas of life, including the civil magistrate, would be controversial, especially among Presbyterians? But that is the way it is, and no study committee is going to solve that.
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