Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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In the early months
of 2015, the PCUSA will continue voting on an amendment to its constitution
betraying its thanatos libido as it moves farther and farther and
farther away from 2K+ years of Biblical, confessional, constitutional,
historical, traditional, and common sense Christianity.
If you are not a
part of the PCUSA or are and don’t understand the crisis, you are
ignorant…or blessed.
If you are a part
of the PCUSA and don’t understand why this moment could be the last nail in the
coffin of a denomination determined to distance itself from Jesus by the book,
you wouldn’t understand even if I tried to explain it to you.
Sadly, Isaiah 5
comes to mind.
For women and men
who were introduced to Jesus as Lord and Savior by the book in the PCUSA, there
is a grief that cannot be spoken as witnesses to a formerly faithful
denomination irretrievably apostate under current management.
For those who have
decided to remain faithfully – in but no longer of the PCUSA as
part of the remnant – fidelity is an end not a means; looking up, standing up,
speaking up, and acting up for Jesus in cognizance of His eternal victory that
cannot be detoured by our increasingly intentional co-conspiratorial dark
defiances.
As you reflect on
how you have already voted or prepare to vote on the “amendment” as metaphor
for the place of Jesus by the book in your life with unspeakable consequences,
I offer the following confession.
As a young pastor
exemplifying our Lord’s disdain for professional clergy concomitant to Matthew
15 and Matthew 23 as I willingly and cheerfully cooperated with idolaters and
apostates to embrace and revel in so many perks and privileges granted me by
misused and ultimately squandered graces from our Lord, I embraced adulteries
without blinking without shame without detection.
I enjoyed the
adulteries.
I really, really,
really enjoyed the adulteries.
Let
me repeat, I really, really, really…
However,
I never had the arrogance or dark audacity to consider, entertain, pretend,
assume or advocate my adulteries as even remotely consistent with 2K+ years of
Biblical, confessional, constitutional, historical, traditional, and common
sense Christianity.
Yes,
I really, really, really enjoyed them; but, again, never even reimagined that I
was honoring Jesus by the book.
I
was a clandestinely self-affirming unrepentant adulterer.
Just
to be…honest…which I haven’t always been…, I still ignore and sometimes even
defy God’s will for my life as enfleshed in Jesus and explained in Holy
Scripture; but, now, I admit it, pray and try to repent, and receive His
forgiveness which is persuasive enough for me to forgive myself.
How
about you?
While
the denomination seems determined to forfeit its lampstand, how about you?
Are
you willing to risk…?
Are
you sure this amendment, contradicting 2K+ years of…, will honor Jesus,
increase your intimacy with Him, and enable you to feel His pleasure?
If
you are prepared to vote for this amendment despite its contradicting 2K+ years
of…, roll the dice with your…
Are
you willing to exchange…?
God
knows I know you’ve got to work/play/flesh out your own understanding of
salvation.
Hmm.
In
the end, we will own…
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The following was/is the preface/tease to/for the preceding.
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This is a longer tease/preface to a KD that betrays parochial concern
while possibly portending the future of sister
denominations.
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This can be forwarded or attached to the KD as titled
that will be posted within 24 hours on
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I have never prayed/reflected on an edition
with so much unassuaged pain and
personal confession.
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A friend told me
of a friend - "The enemy of my enemy is my..." - who warned him,
"You better tell Kopp that this remnant stuff is the Confessing Church
Movement with teeth and they
know it. If he's not careful, he's going to get his head
chopped off."
Whoa.
Sounds sooooooo familiar.
Isn't that what
those baaaaaaad Muslims
are doing to Christians all over the world?
Parenthetically,
until governments, mainline denominations, and the media have the, uh, guts to be honest about
Islamofascism (e.g., see attached that most major media outlets are afraid to
touch), Islamofascism will continue unabated.
Anyway, someone
in the PCUSA, the custodial denomination of my ordination and credentials, who
doesn't like to hear about teaching elders and churches declaring remnant,
praying and trying to remain faithful to Jesus by the book, has said I better
be careful or I'll get my head chopped off.
I thought of
David's Psalm 55.
I also thought,
"Could it be they are
like them? Are
there people in our denomination who would chop off my head if I fail their
ideological masquerading as soteriological litmus tests?"
Jesus was right:
"They come in sheep's clothing but..."
Like Americans -
politicians, pulpiteers, pewsitters, and media - who are afraid of those baaaaaaad Muslims, the
PCUSA is afraid of anyone with the boldness to tell the truth about what it
does not believe anymore.
It's axiomatic.
If you don't fear
God, you fear everyone else.
I love the PCUSA in a nostalgic kinda way.
It introduced me
to Jesus.
It nurtured my
call to undershepherding.
It did not
abandon me when I sinned blatantly/wantonly/shamelessly; forgiving when so many
wanted to damn.
Such an orthodox
heritage.
Calvin.
Westminster.
Princeton.
But, now, alas...
I sooooooo want to be like
the mindless jingoists who long for the way things never were or maybe were but
are no more.
I want to pretend
cultural relevancy for the PCUSA long lost in egoisms pretending to be
theology.
The PCUSA has
become, for me, a personal wandering Into
the Woods.
I wish...
I remain.
I will not,
cannot, leave as stated previously and currently over and over and over and...
I pray I remain
faithfully.
Yet I see the end
coming for the PCUSA.
Maybe in 2015.
Certainly, not
much longer than...
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8 comments:
Keep faithful to Jesus, brother, our Shepherd in the midst of the wolves. I am thankful for a "by the Book" pastor and pray that you are supported by your congregation in all the denominational drifts and rifts.
Its only going to get worse, with the media accusing stand up Christians as hateful and intolerant because we lovingly point to a better way. But when it comes from our own families, flocks, it especially hurts.
Jesus said the truth will set you free. It does, but sometimes it ends in crucifixion. Think of what our brothers and sisters are facing all around the world as the roaring lion prowls and growls.
Dr,Pastor Kopp,Just keep Teaching and Preaching The truth about the Bible. People will here about the Church that teaches the truth. And more will start coming to 221 North Main. God Bless to all
God bless you my brother. Regardless of what happens to the denomination, those who continue to exalt the name of Jesus will have God's peace in all circumstances.
Well, beheadings, while not to be sought, are not to be avoided if they come as a result of following Jesus faithfully by the Book, as you endeavor to do.
My favorite headless guy, apart from Nick, who, after all, was just a nearly headless dude in Harry Potter, is ol' John the Baptizer. If your kopf (Just imagine, a kopfless Kopp!)gets separated from your shoulders you will certainly be in my Top Ten list of people with no heads.
So, in 2015 as "the amendment" makes its way through the presbyteries, keep doing what Jesus did(and still does in and through the Spirit). The world will be skeptical, Islamofascists, will be infuriated, and, perhaps, someone in Louisville will be sharpening your sword, as if they are someone to be feared. In fact, not only can't they cast you into the lake of fire, it seems more and more that they may spend eternity swimming in the flames. May God have mercy!
Walton,
Praise the Lord!
Pastor Bob,
It breaks my heart, what a new year.
Bob,
I continue to pray for you, stand with you, and support you in my prayers and love.
Brother Bob:
Someone once asked me what my purpose in life was. Being in my twenties at the time I opined that I was on earth to follow what God wanted for me which included being creative in a literal sense and then to help those that I helped create to find their path to God as well. Upon and from that point I believed it my duty to protect those who could not protect themselves so that they could have the opportunities I had to find my way. By that razor I have lived my life. Like I said in one of emails to you years ago, sometimes I just want to pick up my axe! Sampson was not a mistake even if he was at times mistaken. Dig?
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