If the PCA wants to be a little club of churches that fire off pot shots at each other and takes its place in the ecclesiastical world as a micro-denomination that stands ONLY for Reformed Purity rather than Reformed Catholicity, and if the PCA rejects the Kuyperian approach to the rule of Jesus over all areas of life and all of reality, embracing exclusively a view of Christ’s authority in which he rules the Church now but not much else, and if the PCA wants to spend its worship times giving speeches about what the sacraments don’t do rather than what Jesus does by his Spirit in the right administration of the sacraments, turning baptisms into damp dedications and the Lord’s Supper into a funeral service, and if ministerial symbols of office like robes and collars cannot be worn without someone suspecting that those who don such garments are on their way to Rome (or other destinations), then by all means slam the guys at Park Slope, despise the New York Metro Presbytery, spend time hunting down quotes in comment boxes on blogs for evidence of theological impurity, or slander ministers in good standing by misquoting their work while advertising such slander with sensationalistic headlines, and hope to put on trial those who read and quote books written by authors with whom we don’t agree on every single point (or crucial point!). That my friends is not the Reformed world I joined, and it strikes me as tragic, sectarian, and fruitless. There is a better way, and I suspect its about to unfold.
We need the right emphasis on the non-heretical WCF sense of the imputed righteousness of Christ’s active obedience, for the WCF is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of truly PCA and CREC wannabe, of Christ’s active and passive obedience with more imagined precision than the Lutheran’s indicatives and imperatives, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of their hearts by their writings (don’t ask) for they shall know us by our blogs’ declaration of Paul’s anathema upon them.