The Protestant and Reformed church has always—and still today—condemns Moscow’s infant communion
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What paedocommunion subverts is elders examining covenant children for membership (the privilege of communion) and lovingly, tenderly explaining to them that they do not yet understand we must cling to the foreign righteousness of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, “Jesus died for our sins,” but you must understand how you yourself are a sinner, and that Jesus died for your sins.
What a tender time this is in the life of the church, and how precious it is for the baton of care for the souls of covenant children to be passed on to men of God who aren’t their fathers and mothers.
Yes, we have said “no” to children seeking membership and Lord’s table participation, and suffered the anger of their mothers. But it was always worth it. Discipline is unpleasant at the time, but produces a harvest of righteousness. Love,
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“Who builds a church to God and not to fame,
Will never mark the marble with his name.” - A. Pope
Sorry, Alexander Pope.
My mod:
Who builds to God and not to fame,
Will never mark a building with his name.
Bunch of great quotes from him, including:
Hope springs eternal in the human breast.
My mod:
Hope springs eternal in the human pest.
Then this which we should all be quoting constantly amid all the blather by the effeminate in the church, and their flaccid friends:
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
My only mod to this one when I quote it is to stop after “mien” to explain it miens “countenance.” Alright now, everybody vote: witticism or pun?
Love,
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Hard to believe a Pope ever said this.
The United Methodist worldwide General Conference starts today and the Rev Kelly Clem supports motion to remove language against homosex: “The effort is to let go of some words that are offensive and put people in a box. I feel like it’s better for us to remove language that separates people or that confines people to a category.”
#HEmadethemmalefemale
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Other than Moscow, no place I’m more compelled to bring reality to bear on men’s words than media headlines re baby slaughter. What should be said here is mothers have to leave their state to murder their children. Idaho protects them. Hello #babyslaughter
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Federal vision a comprehensive mucking up of Biblical soteriology. Paedocommunion a comprehensive mucking up of Biblical sacramentology. Moscow postmillennialism comprehensive mucking up of Biblical eschatology. Center of CREC is schism. #CRECwakeup
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French Pres. Macron speech on Europe’s future given at Sorbonne: “Europe can die of itself. The risk is we all get accustomed to our own undervaluing of ourselves.”
Outside of repentance and faith in Jesus, every man undervalues his soul and dies of himself.
Dang… that’s the one part I liked from them.
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Every spring, we take pic of our granddaughter, Poppy Weeks, with our poppies. This the first year she hasn’t cried.
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The false shepherd pleases the palate. His doctrinal innovations are piquant. Craving attention, he creates new dishes and tastes; new pairings, presentations, menus, prices. Fads are his lifeblood. He’s an influencer. A huckster.
Learn to recognize him. #goodshepherd
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“(God) rescued us from the authority of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins" (Colossians 1:13-14).
The Christian has been rescued from the authority of darkness.
The unbeliever lives under the authority of darkness.
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Dear brother, may I suggest two works, The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn and The False Presence of the Kingdom by Ellul. If you’d like a copy of the second, send an email address. These books inoculated me, although I can’t promise the same for anyone else. Love,
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The Apostle Paul sums up his pastoral work: “…night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to warn each one with tears” (Acts 20:31).
False shepherds don’t do ceaseless warnings to each person both night and day. With tears.
Good vs false shepherds—learn to tell the difference. #goodshepherd
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J. Oliver Buswell in private letter to J. Gresham Machen on Dec. 4, 1936:
"I do not question the right of a professor in a truly Presbyterian seminary to teach the amillennial view if he believes it. You do not question the right of a professor to teach the premillennial view if that is his position. It has seemed to me however that the shift of emphasis from historical critical apologetics to philosophical apologetics has resulted in a very strong and disproportionate emphasis upon the amillennial view. This, in my humble judgment, has resulted from a philosophical conception which has unconsciously been allowed to creep in, and has not been the result of careful, critical Biblical scholarship.
“I am sure you know that I believe in preaching doctrine, and in preaching the system of doctrine, but I fear that doctrinal preaching that is more philosophical than exegetical is dangerous.”
A month later Machen died. Six months later, schism over the millennium split Buswell and Machen’s Presbyterian Church of America.
At the time, their denomination was only a year old.
My Machen/early PCA history is sketchy at best, but was there a faction of PCA folks in those days who were dispensationalist premll? Or historical premill? Or am I totally misunderstanding the nature of the debate?
Yes. The Bible Presbyterian Church, which was formed as a result of the referenced split, was premil.
First, not PCA since it was Presbyterian Church of America, not Presbyterian Church in America. A couple years later, the PCOA took the name Orthodox Presbyterian Church, while the PCIA was founded in 1973. Confusing, I know. “Of” vs “in.”
Second, Buswell and Machen agreed parts of dispensationalism were heresy, and parts not. My point in publishing this excerpt is to show two things: one, how common it’s been for eschatological schisms to be more philosophical (and I would add, political) than Scriptural, in nature. And two, how long their destruction spreads down through church history. Love,
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