Setting the record straight

June 22, 2007 by
Filed under: Religion 

I got quoted by the Layman.

For those who’ve never heard of it, the Presbyterian Layman is the newsletter of the Presbyterian Lay Committee.  In my opinion, the Presbyterian Lay Committee has been one of the driving forces behind attempts by the conservative wing of the PC(USA) denomination to take over and/or split the denomination.  The Lay Committee is extremely divisive – the Layman doubly so.

I was quoted in this article for my comments in this post at Decently and In Order.  DAIO is a site run by 4 young PC(USA) pastors who do a semi-regular podcast.  The site is set up so that users (including me) can post links to articles of interest on the web and make comments.  Voting (ala Digg.com – which the site is based on) is available, but it’s the comments that are the most interesting.

I want to make a few things clear.

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Second, I support my statements regarding the Heartland Presbytery Administrative Commission.  I feel strongly that an AC that has substantially all of the power of the presbytery over sessions and minister members, that has the ability to have additional targets added by a small subset of presbytery members, and that has no defined end date is a terrible idea.  In essence, a group that has large amounts of power has been created under circumstances where the only way to perpetuate that power is through the finding of additional “schismatics”.  This is an invitation to corruption.  A better choice would be to create the AC to deal solely with the two congregations in question.  Emergency presbytery meetings would be sufficient to deal with new situations.

Third, I am completely in favor of an Administrative Commission being created to exercise the powers listed over the First Presbyterian Church of Paola, KS and the Hillsdale Presbyterian Church of Hillsdale, KS.  A married couple are in positions of power in each church, and they have clearly schemed together to lead these congregations out of the denomination.  Their actions have shown none of the grace expected and required when a church regretfully chooses to leave the denomination.

I hope this clears things up.

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4 Comments on Setting the record straight

  1. kairos blog on Fri, 22nd Jun 2007 2:40 pm

    2. Admitting a conflict…

    Not a conflict of interest, but an internal conflict. Some rancor (though I’m surprised there hasn’t been more) has been tossed around lately regarding some New Wineskins-affiliated churches and Heartland Presbytery (with PCUSA churches in Kansas and M…

  2. StCasserole on Wed, 27th Jun 2007 10:27 pm

    3. Sorry this happened. There’s nothing like being misunderstood and having the misunderstanding blasted around the ‘net.

  3. Adam on Thu, 28th Jun 2007 1:06 pm

    4. That’s really frustrating. It’s hard enough to take the Layman very seriously, and now that I know they’re just lifting quotes from websites without permission, it’s even harder.

  4. Ryan on Thu, 13th Sep 2007 4:28 pm

    5. Hey Bro. They don’t have time to scheme.

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