Articles: Church-practices
A Sad Day
It was a very sad day for the Christian church, for Protestantism, and particularly for Presbyterianism. May 10, 2011 the Presbytery of the Twin Cities, Minnesota, voted to remove all restrictions on practicing homosexuals (and practicing fornicators for that matter) from serving as clergy. Because it was the 87th Presbytery to do so, their vote to amend the church’s constitution confirmed the action last summer of the PCUSA’s General Assembly, opening the door for their ordination. The new policy will be effective July 10. How do things like this happen? How can it be that the denominational heirs of John Calvin and John Knox, of Archibald Alexander and Charles Hodge, of B. B. Warfield and J. Gresham Machen, have come to this? more...
The Church as it was Meant to be
Periodically, in the history of the church the cry has sounded to reform and cleanse the church, and to return it to the purity and simplicity of the apostolic era. While taking care not to overly idealize the first generation of Christians (after all, the church at Corinth was a branch of the early church!), we have grown to appreciate the appeal of such a return. What vitality was present in the apostolic church! What energy, what boldness, what progress, what success! more...