The PCA's 2010 Strategic Plan has been hailed by many as a great plan and a necessary change in the PCA. But not all who've read the plan are as enthusiastic. I would encourage you to read Wes White's insightful analysis here.
William Schweitzer also has a great article at the Aquila Report. Here is a choice selection from his article.
Now, stepping away from ourselves for a moment, is this not the perspective we would assume in relation to some other denominations in decline? Take the PC USA for example. According to their official statistician, the PC USA lost about a million members between 1983 and 2008, from 3,131,228 to 2,140,165. That is a serious S-curve. I do not think, however, that our advice to the PC USA would be that they need to provide “more seats at the table” for women, set up “safe places” for people to talk about new ideas without fear of getting disciplined, or that they needed to withdraw from orthodox fellowships like NAPARC. They implemented similar strategies a long time ago. Hopefully, we would tell them that they are under the curse of God for their theological unfaithfulness, and they should repent.
For, first of all, the pious mind does not devise for itself any kind of God, but looks alone to the one true God; nor does it feign for him any character it pleases, but is contented to have him in the character in which he manifests himself always guarding, with the utmost diligences against transgressing his will, and wandering, with daring presumptions from the right path.
--John Calvin, Insitutes of the Christian Religion, I.ii.2
--John Calvin, Insitutes of the Christian Religion, I.ii.2
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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2 comments:
Steven,
I think this paragraph is the best sucinct analysis/commentary on the PCASP that I've seen so far.
Also, I enjoyed making you and your family's aquaintances at Presbytery!
In the last decade, we saw the whole "Restless and Reformed" movement. Tens of thousands of Baptists took an interest in Calvinism. Yet few, if any, of these people would up in the PCA, which managed to shrink.
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