(David) Reading this summary of this week's Presbyterian Church in America General Assembly by my friend, Joel Belz I thought rather sadly to myself, "He's whistling in the dark."
The news of closely divided votes on issues where there should be no division, of "prominent PCA churchmen" playing nice with each other while pretending to debate important ecclesial and theological issues, of 1100 PCA elders sashaying the streets of Disney World to the 2.4.2.4 meter of "The Spirituality of the Church" as American courts legalize sodomite marriage is (what should I say? disturbing? mesmerizing? droll?) at the very least, typically southern presbyterian.
I fear the PCA began with one foot half-in-the-grave arising, as it did, from southern, tall-steeple conservativism. And now that the buddy network has allied itself to Kuyperian cool, both feet are dangling.
There's increasingly little question where the PCA is headed: to the Land of Nice. To the place where oily Askers of Questions are debated with gentlemanly decorum by backslapping good old boys and the only fly in the ointment is the occasional barking, probably rabid, dog on the outskirts of town.
Read the comments on this PCA news item to see where the PCA is really headed....
