byFaith Magazine – PCA News – Committee on RPR Rejects Minutes Citing Paedocommunion Exception.

Interesting report. Paedocommunion, with the full freedom to teach and preach (not practice!) has been granted in many (I suspect the vast majority) of presbyteries for decades now. Rob Rayburn, Peter Leithart, James Bordwine, and many others in the Pacific Northwest Presbytery still have it. So do my paedocommunionist friends in North Texas and MO presbyteries.

Indeed, back when the issue was approved at the GA level, the idea of restricting anyone’s teaching or preaching the Word of God on this matter was not even considered. Rather, as the minority report rightly pointed out:

1. That the PCA continue the practice defined in our standards and administer the Lord’s Supper “only to such as are of years and ability to examine themselves.”
2. That the Committee on Paedocommunion prepare an annotated bibliography of sources both for and against the practice, and that resources be collected by the Committee for distribution to those who request them to study the matter further.
3. And that ruling and teaching elders who by conscience of conviction are in support of the minority report [presented at the 16th General Assembly] concerning paedocommunion be notified by this Assembly [the 16th] of their responsibility to make known to their presbyteries and sessions the changes of their views.

So the General Assembly can distribute the teaching and preaching of PCA pastors but PCA pastors can’t preach and teach it?

Well, this attempt to bind the consciences of those who study Scripture was always the agenda behind the anti-FV jihad. We’ll see if the few have softened up the people enough to pull it off. Only time will tell. At this point, I can’t even say I care one way or another.

Pretty much over my belief that the PCA had any importance in the Evangelical world.

I am pleased to see someone identify a teaching as unconfessional that is actually unconfessional. That has been all too rare in the last decade.

But paedocommunion is Biblical, and God isn’t going to bless people who nullify the word of God by human tradition.