Comments on: Premature Departure

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 20 May 2005 15:36:01 +0000

I think that their reasons for starting a new Presbyterian denomination are silly. Have they read Frame’s “Machen’s Warring Children http://www.christiancounterculture.com/40615/machen.html? I don’t think Norman Shepherd has that much influence in the OPC. I think that Richard Gaffin at WTS has well critiqued the New Perspective on Paul http://www.modernreformation.org/rg02newp.htm. Paul calls us to live together with our disagreements. Moreover, this is certainly a different issue than Machen dealt with. This action makes me more certain that churches that divide tend to keep dividing over nothing consequential.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 20 May 2005 13:17:52 +0000

Well, I don’t know about the large number of churches, but it does seem that people are really jumping the gun. My impression is that people have simply forgotten that we’re Presbyterian.

During the struggles that we’ve recently had with out church, I had wondered out loud to my father why Presbytery doesn’t step in. He told me (correctly) that higher courts can’t act unless lower courts prompt them. These people, it seems, don’t understand that if the PCA and the OPC hasn’t done anything, it’s because their churches haven’t told them to.

It’s like complaining that your car won’t start, while refusing to even turn the key.

By: William Hill

William Hill — Fri, 20 May 2005 10:37:51 +0000

This action to start a new denomination is pathetic. the PCA and OPC need to react accordingly and discipline these men for what they are doing. I find it interesting that there are a large number of churches that are interested in joining with them. Is this a clear case of “hitting on” someone while they are legally “wed” to another? I think Scripture has something to say about “sowing discord”.

Disciplie is definitely in order and it needs to come quick.