Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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"The church is always trying to get other people to
reform.
It might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little
by way of example."
Mark Twain
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People leaving
the PCUSA from around the globe have been writing to me.
I'm shocked.
They're angry
because I've been rather, uh, salty about people who leave as being fainthearts
and hardly in the spirit/Spirit of Matthew 10, John 10, John 17, etc., etc.,
etc.
They get really
angry when I laugh at their hermeneutical navel-gazing and
___tion and eisegesis as prooftexting outta context.
They have not
liked me talking about guys like Luther, Bonhoeffer, King, contemporary martyrs
in the Middle East, and...
They have not
liked me mocking them for their "sufferings" in a franchise
irretrievably apostate under current management.
Oh, Oh, Oh,...poooooor babies.
They have not
liked me talking about...
Well, if you've
been reading, and most have not, you know...
Anyway, I did
hear from a few, a very few, an overwhelmingly small sample of the exception to
the rule, noting exceptions
to the rule are called exceptions to the rule because they occur so
infrequently that they are called exceptions to the rule, that, uh,
admittedly, make sense.
Summarily,
they go like this, "It's easy for you to say you're not leaving
because you're in a presbytery that's not going after pastors and sessions and
churches that still hold to the faith and forcing them to comply with their
infidelities and pay for
them or else."
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True.
Blackhawk
Presbytery is exceptional.
Our left and
right and up and down and sideways seem to overcome the lesser stuff because
we're bonded in/through/for Jesus.
Yeah, we've had
some folks leave from the right and we've had some ___ from the left who've
tried to...
Buuuuuuut, overwhelmingly,
we kinda get along and, uh, weather the...
True.
If you're one of
those my-way-or-the-highway-on-everything-speck-inspectors,
you won't be happy in Blackhawk Presbytery; and you probably wouldn't be
comfortable in heaven either because...
:)
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I've often
thanked God for the privilege to be in a presbytery without as many litmus
tests as too many other ones.
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Having said that,
we're like other presbyteries in allowing congregational miscreants get away with...
You know what I
mean: "Preachers come and go; but
the miscreants remain to keep doing what they've always done."
It's an
increasing plague.
Right now, I'm
O.K. after about 11 years in Belivdere.
I've weathered
the...
But anyone who's
seen Mass Appeal or
lived it knows
that could change in the...
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I'm not one of
those Doris Day clergywomen/men who long for the way things never were or maybe
were but are no more.
I just can't sit
around and watch clergy and members get emotionally, intellectually,
spiritually, and...raped by the same miscreants...over and over and over...
I'm tired of the
good guys confessing their sins; but not given a chance to repent for
restoration.
I'm tired of the
bad guys getting away with it.
Sooooooo whenever we
release or dissolve or...pastoral relationships...and I don't hear any
accountability/discipline-to-redemption about the miscreants...I'm gonna get up
and ask...
Yeah, I'll hear
the groans: "There goes Kopp again...Please, Bob, sit down, 'cause we
wanna go home...And as long as we're not..."
How Christian?
Me, me, me...
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Actually, I'm
hopeful; because I'm in Blackhawk Presbytery.
I know our
officers and membership, more than less, really care about each other.
We don't want to
shoot our wounded.
We want to model
Someone better in this area...just like we've done with the left, right, up,
down, and sideways.
I think it'll
catch on.
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Apart from asking
questions, I'm thinking about working on a process that holds everybody accountable to
confession and repentance for restoration when churches are tempted to release,
dissolve, and...
I'm thinking
about a process that
does not allow churches to call another pastor unless they've
disciplined-to-redemption everyone involved in...
I'm serious.
I don't mind
being called a fool...if it's for the right...
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While this should
be a selflessly agapeish
attitude for anyone more-than-posing Christianity, I'd also suggest those who
don't care and don't wanna get involved get out that Niemoller quote.
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Blessings and Love!
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