Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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These are tender
times in the PCUSA.
If I have to
explain that to you, you must live in Colorado; or you're one of those State
Department spokeswomen who remind me of Leslie Nielsen's Lieutenant Frank
Drebin standing in front of the exploding fireworks store saying so stupidly,
"Nothing to see here!" (The
Naked Gun, 1988).
Parenthetically,
if you're willing to descend from the ozone layer of reality and catch up with
what's really going on, just go to www.churchandworld.com,
www.pcusa.org, and www.layman.org and read up on a denomination
going down the toilet quicker than poop through a goose.
C'mon, I thought
that was funny.
Of course, I
benefit from one of the side effects of increasing intimacy with Jesus: living joyfully amid
the meanness, madness, misery, and migraines caused by...
Folks from the
way left who have so much "more light" on Christianity than Jesus by
the book that they keep "reimagining" fidelity by their loins and folks from the way
right who betray angst claiming righteous indignation over increasing
infidelities apart from Jesus by the book as if God isn't sovereign and final
arbiter don't understand living
joyfully regardless because they spend sooooooo much more time navel-gazing about
stuff than...
Be that as it is, statistics
don't lie.
Yeah, people lie
about statistics when they use their ideological hermeneutics to interpret 'em.
Buuuuuuut statistics don't
lie and the PCUSA, like all other mainliners that have moved to the sidelines
of religious relevancy in America, is dying.
I leave the
interpretation of why to
the ideological filter that softens your, uh, blow.
As for me, I
think I know why the PCUSA is dying.
God has removed
its lampstand in a letters to the churches of Revelation kinda way.
I may be wrong;
but that's what I think. Annnnnnnd
if you can show me how I'm wrong by Jesus, Holy Scripture, and
common sense, I'll confess, repent, and even publicize my error/sin; buuuuuuut if you're gonna
try to convince me through politically correct yet
emotionally/intellectually/spiritually absurd gymnastics, go back to your wacky
weed and...
You're gonna
think what you wanna think.
That's why we're
in such a mess.
Everybody's word
is as good as anybody else's word in the PCUSA these days regardless of
correspondence to 2K+ years of Biblical, confessional, constitutional,
traditional, historical, and common sense Christianity.
Truth is the
PCUSA, again, like most other mainliners and just about all other
pseudo-Christian clubs, determines/declares/defines
morality/fidelity/righteousness by the most recent popular vote; forgetting, sooooooo sadly not to
mention ominously, that's what those more-light-reimagining
Christians in Germany did to enable Nazism.
With that as
context juxtaposed to a Biblical understanding of remnant - being in the
minority of women and men still trying to honor Jesus by the book - here's how
I'm gonna try to keep our particular regional judicatory (viz., Blackhawk
Presbytery) from going Kenyonesque on women and men of faith who still pray and
labor to honor Jesus by the book.
Parenthetically
(2), if you don't know what "remnant" is all about, just pull out a
concordance, read, pray, digest, and enflesh if,
uh, you're still into, uh, Him. Annnnnnnd if you don't know
what "Kenyonesque" means, go to the archives of www.koppdisclosure.com (right column)
and click on the March 2015 entries about it concomitant to more context in www.churchandworld.com, www.pcusa.org, and www.layman.org.
Here's how I'm
gonna try to combat the Kenyonesque demons as part of a Biblical,
confessional, constitutional, traditional, historical, and common sense
commitment to remaining faithfully rather than running away or
swallowing/enabling/accommodating the irretrievable apostasies under current
management:
1. As chairman of
the presbytery's nominating committee for at least another year, I will do my
best to make sure all nominations to presbytery
committees/commissions/whatevers do not include anyone with an ideological axe
to grind;
2. I will be
especially vigilant when it comes to committees/commissions/whatevers of consequence; and if you
don't know what I'm talking about, you must live in Colorado;
3. I will ask nominating
committee members to review our presbytery's overwhelming commitment to not
going Kenyonesque at our stated meeting on 11/11/14 at Oregon, Illinois'
Stronghold Camp and Retreat Center with all nominees and ask if they
embrace/endorse it;
4. If a nominee
gives any indication of going Kenyonesque, I will recommend the person not be
asked to serve in our presbytery; and
5. If the
nominating committee decides to nominate anyone who gives any indication of
going Kenyonesque, I will provide a minority report to the presbytery and ask
the presbytery to reject such nominations; again, citing our commitment on
11/11/14: "Acknowledging same-sex nuptials are legal in Illinois and the
PCUSA affords discretion to its teaching elders by the authoritative
interpretation of the 221st General Assembly to preside or not preside at such
rituals+ceremonies=rites and particular churches may host or not host such
ordinances upon session approval subject to the review of higher judicatories,
Blackhawk Presbytery will honor the consciences of teaching elders and
particular churches within its bounds; noting its members are divided among
those who embrace the authoritative interpretation as witness to progressive
theology and those who reject it according to traditional Christianity.
Presiding/participating teaching elders and hosting churches may exercise their
consciences as permitted by the authoritative interpretation. No efforts
to force teaching elders and sessions who decline to preside/participate/host will
be encouraged, enabled, or condoned. Those who embrace and those who
decline do not need to fear ministerial infringements or vocational reprisals
in Blackhawk Presbytery."
Of course, if the
franchise goes officially/constitutionally
Kenyonesque, all bets are off.
If the franchise
goes Kenyonesque, it will be interesting, though sad by inevitability, to see
if the left of Blackhawk Presbytery will be as defiant in upholding the
11/11/14 declaration as it has been in defying previous "standards"
of the franchise and if the right will have the guts to go to the cross with
Jesus if the Kenyonesquers come after 'em.
Stay tuned.
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Blessings and Love!
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1 comment:
Bob, "60 Minutes" last night had a segment about the Orthodox Christians in northern Iraq and how ISIS in about two years has banished them by execution for not converting or by emigration through fear. ISIS has destroyed first century Christian books and bombed any semblance of Christianity in most towns. Places of great Christian strength and heritage in Asia now gone.
Oh, but we are in America. It couldn't happen here!
My father warned his children that if they went into the ministry to be prepared to lead a martyr's death. He said he did not see it in his lifetime (he died in 1983) but he did see it in our lifetimes. Several times Paul, as well as Christ, left scenes of almost certain death. Yet Christ chose not to save himself in order that we might be saved.
Once to every man and nation may come the moment to decide ... whether to convert or to flee. If you are told at some point that you are Kenyon, and you must convert or emigrate--otherwise death to you, may God give you the strength to emigrate, but may you have the strength to lovingly emigrate before then. We emigrated 27 years ago and then we emigrated again 5 years ago. Both times we lovingly said what was not right and why we might leave if nothing changed. It was very difficult because we left loved ones behind who did not see ISIS in their midst. I pray for you to clutch the Lord and nothing else --not loved ones, not books, not buildings, not pensions.
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