New Warhorn Media post by Tim Bayly:
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I don’t understand why God chooses to work in this way. So many instances throughout church history where peace could have done so much for the church…at least so it seems to me. God’s wisdom obviously deems otherwise.
We don’t get to succeed; we just get to be faithful. Maybe this is why we need Ecclesiastes.
I think it’s a case of every truth (“Keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace”) being accompanied by two equal and opposite errors. So if one error is the sort of thing displayed over time by the Church of England - keep the show united at all costs, if in name only - then the opposite error is that demonstrated by the Dutch: “Where there are two Dutchmen, there’ll be a church, but where there are three Dutchmen, there’ll be two churches!” (Abraham Kuyper, attrib.).
With the matter of divisions, it does beg the question: at what point is leaving something the right option - e.g. the PCA leaving the PCUSA - and at what point do we “grin and bear it”?
Difficult question, brother. Lots of thoughts which I hope to get back to later. Travelling today. Love,
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