Boomers were catechized on a few essential “truths”:
1) diversity is our strength
2) Israel is our ally
3) separation of Church and state
4) global missions > local missions
Now compare what this current gen believes about these things, and you can see the issue we face.
Admit the evil of sin, with all its eternal consequences, and you are shut up to a divine way of dealing with it. Deny the evil of sin, and the future results of that evil, and you may deny the whole revelation of God, set aside the cross, and abrogate the law.
- Horatius Bonar
The Everlasting Righteousness
I’m excited to share the release of Westminster Reader— a clean, focused app for reading and studying the Westminster Standards.
The app includes:
• Westminster Confession of Faith
• Westminster Shorter Catechism
• Westminster Larger Catechism
• Full offline KJV proof texts
• Searchable prooftexts
• Flash cards
• Reading plans
• Bookmarks
• Light and dark reading themes
My hope is that this app will make the Standards easier to read, search, study, and return to again and again.
Westminster Reader is available now.
https://t.co/mU8PZ9Ib78
Pinelands Presbyterian Church called a congressional meeting to leave the PCA as a congregation.
We had 66 communing members present who voted in the affirmative to leave the PCA. We had one communing member abstain from voting. There was no discussion on the matter.
We then had a second meeting to petition the Free Church of Scotland Continuing (FCC) to become a congregation in the FCC.
We had 81 members (communing and non communing) sign the petition.
We bless the PCA and its members and ministers and seek to labor in another vineyard for our future labors.
There was much unity and warmness in the whole endeavor. We thank the Lord for it.
The #PCA CN report says:
“ An officer who advocates for the magistrate’s duty to suppress heresies is in tension with the Standards.” 2731, lines 30-31
How does this square with WLC 108, which is also part of the PCA standards?
WLC 108 says it is the duty of all (including magistrates) to not only detest, disapprove and suppress false religion, but actively remove it, and all monuments of idolatry.
"Christ will indeed be mild and gentle towards the weak, but that he will have no softness or effeminacy...Many persons wish to profit by the name of gentleness, so as to gain the applause and esteem of the world, but at the same time betray truth in a base and shameful manner." Calvin
@irishpresby The PCA did not disavow or suspend Greg Johnson who identified as a gay Christian. Yet Zachary Garris is suspended for unwholesome words. Make it make sense.
DFW report:
47-3. Since our fall into sin, we can only approach our Father in heaven through the
mediation of His Son and with the help of His Spirit (WCF 21.2). We enter His presence
pleading the merits of our covenant Lord and honoring Christ as Savior and head of His
church. We are led by the Spirit through His Holy Word. In the Word He speaks with such
clarity that where even two or three are gathered together, we sense His power and know His
presence. These Scriptures remain an infallible and sufficient rule of faith and practice, and
our only guide to the principles of worship that are tuned to God’s praise (WSC 50, 51).
Nah.