- Confusion
- Idolatry
- Wrangling
- Peace, Unity and Purity
- Bureaucracy
- Religious Pluralism
- Crumbling Standards
Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD)
- Emulate the three monkeys: Do nothing, Say Nothing, Hear Nothing
- Do Nothing: do not attend Presbytery or New Wineskins, or Confessing, or other groups.
- Say Nothing: no matter what PC(USA) does, do not interfere.
- Hear Nothing: Do not read Layman, or any blogs on the troubles.
- Jesus threw out the money changers, etc. - Should be a house of Prayer.
- Jesus criticized the leaders for poor leadership.
- Too much time on troubles, not enough for Jesus.
- The often quoted, "...then they came for me"
- If do nothing to correct a wrong, I am guilty of enabling the wrong do-ers.
- Be salt to PC(USA).
- I was born Presbyterian and I want to die Presbyterian! (nevermind that PC(USA) is was born in 1983 and is only partially related to the two previous denominations.)
- Jesus telling the Apostles to shake the dust from their feet.
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3 comments:
In fairness to Pastor Lyn (someone I remember fondly from seminary), she has to live in that Presbytery. They have shown they can be brass-knuckled brawlers. I can understand the necessity of discretion.
Yes, I do understand, fear also rules in my presbytery - Eastern Oklahoma.
I would add to your list of 'troubles' two items:
Secular political activism - particularly without the agreement of the members, and notably without the support of any Scripture.
System wide corruption. This goes beyond bureaucracy - an inefficiency would be tolerable. It is a catastrophic failure of employees, offices, permanent committees, at many levels of the denomination to follow minimal standards of ethical conduct, and to follow their own rules. There isn't really a remedy for this that I can see. Most Presbyterians will deny it exists - take, for example the comments section in the blog post you mention.
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