I took down a post yesterday that cited publicly broadcast material from a PCA church. There are some ironies involved given recent events that I won’t go into.
I took it down because some thought there had to be some sort of private conference. Frankly, I’m all for giving presbyteries a chance to suppress evil, but when stuff like this is broadcast, I think the situation becomes more comparable to this incident.
Someone with little to less than zero sympathy for my part in certain doctrinal debates mentioned that this might reflect “obscurantism” in the PCA. I know that I have undoubtedly been guilty of that, probably more often than I know. But he is utterly right. We are about to be a true sanhedrin, condemning the innocent while all sorts of foul evil takes place in the location where we meet.
Another bitter irony is that while real evil is done, others will condemn a man for having the “wrong” opinion about the rights and wrongs of the Civil War. It’s a stupid issue to get in the way of minstry, of course, but to see him slandered while the real stuff is ignored…
How can any soul not be outraged?
I have no idea if I will repost the material or not.
FWIW, if you can see your way clear beyond the issues that induced you to take it down, I think you should repost.
It’s easy to tell ourselves that such ugliness either doesn’t happen or is somehow “unofficial,” but if you can demonstrate that it’s not a mere quirk of individuals but something with deeper roots in certain sectors of our denomination, I think those who don’t know it’s there or have a hard time believing it ought to see it in living color from original sources. This could very well be one of those “sunlight as antiseptic” situations.
I have some of it up on my blog.
Garrett