This is truly outstanding:

In 2003 I became a member of Pacific Northwest Presbytery of the PCA. The Auburn Avenue controversies were 2 years old. Lo and behold I was on a committee with Peter Leithart! As a member of several Reformed email lists who were spoiling to become a web-linked Inquisition, Leithart’s name kept coming up in the inevitable “he reads this, sounds like so and so, so he must be a heretic” discussion that is now coin of the realm in our Reformed circles.

I was in a wonderful and awkward position depending on who you were talking to – – I was within spitting distance of Leithart and we could get him and forever stop this deadly creep of Romanism, sacramentalism, pomo noodling with words, etc. And then I met Peter face to face. There is not a more gentle, servant soul than Peter Leithart. He answers critics with grace. He offered me unfettered access to him and any question I would want to ask him via email or phone or face to face. As I have found out to my chagrin in this and other Presbyterian squabbles: no one was calling him, including me. We were taking him to task and never taking time to understand the brother, his views, and we had acted as if we had known his motives. I apologized to him as a brother and began work in a new way as part of the ad interim committee investigating his views. Our committee report was blasted as being soft on him and passing him as orthodox, as if Leithart was the Trojan horse par excellence….

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