The one unified message is Christ crucified: no competition between Word audible and Word edible

Mark and John comment on weekly communion.

As far as boasting in particularities, that is rife in a hundred different ways in the PCA. Cool Kellerites, EmerGentlemen, WCFans, Reformed Catholics, etc. Remember, in Corinth, even saying “I am of Christ” was schizmatic. How we pull all this in is worth talking about. But I’m not going to be intimidated into silence because an Ambassador for the Banner of Truth wants me to be quiet so his voice is heard more broadly because, after all, he is really only preaching Christ Crucified. He does preach Christ crucified and his voice carries just fine. He certainly would have been welcome in any of my pulpits, and I simply don’t believe the sacrament of communion would detract from his preaching Christ and Him crucified.

This is the world we live in. Let’s live in it together and pray together for God to give us a better one. We can’t say we tolerate diversity and then accuse people of boasting for saying what they do and why in their weekly service.

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