David Schweissing

Husband, father, pastor, church planter. Disarmingly ordinary.

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@JoshuaTorrey I suggested that I might shave my beard for summer over lunch with my daughters.
Them: “No. You scare people.”
Me: “That’s my face!”
“We know.”

[Miles Smith IV @IVMiles]

My initial reading of the preliminary reading of the CN study report from the PCA is that whatever quibbles I have, it is a serious document that has been put together by serious churchmen, and that’s something every conservative Protestant communion can celebrate.

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@CAHutch1990 Country roads, take me home…

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@JoshuaTorrey Then definitely makes a difference…!

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@JoshuaTorrey @TheCornDog @nate_ozzie Are we still talking about polity, or did we veer into full-on clowns?

Because sometimes it’s hard to tell.

[The Gospel Coalition @TGC]

We honor the life of John Perkins (1930-2026), who passed earlier today.

Read more about his life, and the ways that God used him as a civil rights advocate and Christian leader, in this profile from 2018.

https://t.co/aL0Z0pZEJ9

[Andy Jones @beingandyjones]

"We notice that PCA permits a certain flexibility in acceptance of its doctrinal standards. If a teaching elder or ruling elder finds himself at variance with any provision in our doctrinal standards, he makes that variance known to his presbytery/session. This Court then decides whether such variance is allowable or not.

We believe that a similar kind of flexibility should also apply to our PCA polity and give greater flexibility to the local church. To this end, we would like to revise the BCO to remove many of the restrictive details of polity and let the BCO state broad principles. This would allow each court the flexibility to develop its own procedure within these BCO principles. We would propose the similar kind of flexibility in polity as we now have for doctrine, with similar safeguards."

From the 13th #pcaga, Report of the Ad-Interim Committee to Study and Make Recommendations as to Structure and Procedure (p. 319).

The committee was chaired by Jack Williamson and included Frank Barker, Will Barker, Robert Cannada, Richard Chewning, David Coffin, Bruce Ferg, Paul Gilchrist, George Knight, and Paul Settle with Jim Baird and Morton Smith as advisors.

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@TheCornDog @sassiterian

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

Bradley Longfield’s The Presbyterian Controversy makes the point that both fundamentalists and modernists wanted a “Christian” America (though of course differed in their visions), which has stuck with me.

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@sassiterian

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@sassiterian Would a binding DPW regulate how to dispose of leftover bread? Because ours is devoured by small children during cleanup after worship.

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@JoshuaTorrey Wait. You were married at 15…?

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@sassiterian Well, since we know the laying on of hands always denotes ordination, this is, at best, confusing… 😉

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@sassiterian This actually comes up in the discussion assessing Keller’s ministry between James Wood and Collin Hansen.

https://t.co/FqxFz2J6pS

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@sassiterian Rayburn is a treasure. Miss those meetings.

[David Schweissing @schweissing]

@JoshuaTorrey Fair point.