What on earth? I have a decades-long history of working with Roman Catholics in the pro-life movement and have friends who are definitely conservative Catholics, some of them even in Latin Mass traditionalist circles. We're very aware of our differences and understand why we can be friends, and we can work together in politics (i.e., what Kuyper taught), but we can't be in each other's churches.
I can't think of any of my conservative Catholic friends who would handle matters like this if an ordained priest were leaving the Roman Catholic Church to become a Protestant. Laymen leaving a Roman Catholic parish for an evangelical Protestant church might be handled more gently as "separated brethren," but an ordained man knows, or is SUPPOSED to know, what his church teaches. In any case, he had formally vowed before God to teach it during his ordination, so even if ignorant, his ignorance has no excuse.
Our churches are different. Catholics who take their doctrine seriously understand that.
Protestants should too.
That's especially true for Reformed people who, unlike many broad evangelicals, have formal confessional statements explaining why our forefathers left the Roman Catholic Church.
Our congregation often hears the praises of the PCA for its doctrine and polity. Does the PCA believe it enough to contend for, or choose to capitulate to culture, showing more concern for unity than truth? (Wokeness, racial reconciliation, affinity groups, egalitarianism)
Demonstrates two very old problems: the need for the Biblical Doctrine of Separation to be taught and practiced, and the need for saved membership (both in the local church and the presbyteries). The PCA’s consistent waffling on these two points for the past 30+ years of my membership is not an accident.
I'm pretty confident your tongue was planted firmly in your cheek when you wrote that this scandal was "unexpected." Nothing could be more predictable than this. You have a church which "commissions" women as deaconesses and shepherdesses (who distribute the elements). You have 3 churches in the Grace DC ecosystems which are, for all intents and purposes, particular, yet are unaccountable to the Potomac Presbytery. You have an influential and highly-compensated member of PCA staff who has caused scandal after scandal and was the subject of a scandalous proceeding at GA this year. I've always been curious which tune Nero was fiddling...bet someone in the PCA could tell me.
Didn’t some RUF CM in Oklahoma go RCC yet was allowed to stay on campus to finish out the semester? This kind of thing is just weird to me. Why did the Reformation happen?
What on earth? I have a decades-long history of working with Roman Catholics in the pro-life movement and have friends who are definitely conservative Catholics, some of them even in Latin Mass traditionalist circles. We're very aware of our differences and understand why we can be friends, and we can work together in politics (i.e., what Kuyper taught), but we can't be in each other's churches.
I can't think of any of my conservative Catholic friends who would handle matters like this if an ordained priest were leaving the Roman Catholic Church to become a Protestant. Laymen leaving a Roman Catholic parish for an evangelical Protestant church might be handled more gently as "separated brethren," but an ordained man knows, or is SUPPOSED to know, what his church teaches. In any case, he had formally vowed before God to teach it during his ordination, so even if ignorant, his ignorance has no excuse.
Our churches are different. Catholics who take their doctrine seriously understand that.
Protestants should too.
That's especially true for Reformed people who, unlike many broad evangelicals, have formal confessional statements explaining why our forefathers left the Roman Catholic Church.
Our congregation often hears the praises of the PCA for its doctrine and polity. Does the PCA believe it enough to contend for, or choose to capitulate to culture, showing more concern for unity than truth? (Wokeness, racial reconciliation, affinity groups, egalitarianism)
Demonstrates two very old problems: the need for the Biblical Doctrine of Separation to be taught and practiced, and the need for saved membership (both in the local church and the presbyteries). The PCA’s consistent waffling on these two points for the past 30+ years of my membership is not an accident.
Thanks for writing this. It needed to be said - and quickly.
I'm pretty confident your tongue was planted firmly in your cheek when you wrote that this scandal was "unexpected." Nothing could be more predictable than this. You have a church which "commissions" women as deaconesses and shepherdesses (who distribute the elements). You have 3 churches in the Grace DC ecosystems which are, for all intents and purposes, particular, yet are unaccountable to the Potomac Presbytery. You have an influential and highly-compensated member of PCA staff who has caused scandal after scandal and was the subject of a scandalous proceeding at GA this year. I've always been curious which tune Nero was fiddling...bet someone in the PCA could tell me.
Didn’t some RUF CM in Oklahoma go RCC yet was allowed to stay on campus to finish out the semester? This kind of thing is just weird to me. Why did the Reformation happen?
Oh well, not my circus.
Ince has got to go.