Tag: Presbyterian
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PCA Consensus Revisited
Preface The denomination in which I serve, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), is approaching the 50th anniversary of its founding. Through these years God has blessed this expression of His Church, and it has been a privilege for me to have been part of it. The sailing has not always been smooth. There have…
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Pretentious Piety
The more things have changed, some things have remained the same. Such is the case for Christians in a typical church. When Samuel Blair assumed the pulpit of Faggs Manor Presbyteran Church in 1740 he found a congregation in a spiritual condition not uncommon even in our day. Blair wrote that when he came…
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Sad Day in the PCUSA
We’ve seen it coming. It has become more iminent with each turn of the calendar page. But somehow, perhaps naively, I had hoped it would never arrive. But at the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA (not to be confused with the PCA) commissioners voted to strike the language from their constitution that reflects…
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Easy Chairs & Hard Words – Part 3
by Douglas Wilson “At last,” I thought. “Now we should be able to talk about what brought me here in the first place.” Pastor Spenser and I were both settling in chairs with the conversation already well under way. “I know what your position is,” I said. “But I am afraid that I still don’t…
