Maybe we should ask the General Assembly to rule that from now on all preaching in PCA churches be done from the Westminster Confession or Catechisms. After all, they are an accurate exposition of Scripture and they cover all the important stuff. So why preach from anything else?
Mark,
You are spot on with this. Very few see the WCF as a consensus document anymore. As we have lost that, we have lost the desire to fight for the unity of the church. When the divines gathered they sought a statement that would unite ALL the churches.
This is worse than Lutheran table fencing.
al sends
It scares me to death that the FV report practically seems to be suggesting such a thing.
It’s also a bit strange to me that the BCO quote the report references says the same is true about the BCO itself. Why did they leave that out? Does it change the meaning “standard exposition”?
Funny (and true) story in this regard: I once challenged a PCA pastor simply to read the WCF chapter on baptism to his congregation the next time he baptized a baby. He refused, saying that it would just confuse the congregation into thinking that the WCF taught baptismal regeneration!
Al — The PCA’s BCO requires “fencing” the table as well, limiting it to “evangelical” believers (or something like that). So, too, the LCMS allows non-LCMS Christians to commune under certain (pastorally applied) conditions. So the difference between the PCA and the LCMS is not “fencing” versus “not fencing,” but where the line is drawn (or, more specifically, the content of evangelical dogma).
Thanks Jim,
While stationed in Diego Garcia we had a Lutheran (LCMS) Chaplain. Good guy, loved the gospel. He held two services. One for Lutherans (even the slippery ones) and one for the other protestants onboard. He said it was because he could not serve communion to one who was not a member of the LCMS. Perhaps he was under different constraints, being a chaplain and all.
I did not mean to slur my Lutheran brothers 🙂
My point though was to say that that the PCA has taken a lawful document and used it unlawfully.
al sends
Make it a requirement for the evening service only, and you’d probably have the Dutch vote! As for table fencing, a wise man once said, “The table fences itself”…
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