I’m sitting in the SeaTac Airport, trying to process what I heard, get a sermon tweaked for Sunday night, and catching up on email.

I already mentioned the Presbyterians & Presbyterians Together report (I’m not sure why my signature hasn’t appeared yet).

I’m catching reports of some rather strong insistence that this document is some sort of political attempt to circumvent or taint judicial process in the PCA.

That’s not the way I see it.

At our last meeting the Candidates and Credentials Committee reported to Missouri Presbytery that they had examined me in light of the Presbytery’s FV Committee findings and found me well within the bounds of orthodoxy. This was the seal on an identical decision made by the Presbytery last year when they voted to receive me as a minister of the gospel called to work in their midst. Sadly, for me and especially my wife at any rate, there were a lot of things being said about me that besmirched my reputation. I was thankful that for the Presbytery’s diligence and zeal for my good name.

I don’t want to circumvent judicial process. I want to see it honored. The document doesn’t circumvent any need to or any attempt to deal with real heresy in a truly Presbyterian process through the appointed courts.

It just asks us to love one another.

Despite my heavy conference schedule, I did manage to edit some of my past papers to get rid of or mute the “debate” tone. I’ll try to do more there as well as this blog, in an attempt to go beyond even what the Presbyterians Together report asks for.

May God give us better discernment by giving us love.