{"id":233,"date":"2007-01-17T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-01-26T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T15:47:25","slug":"and-the-schism-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"And the schism begins …."},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Wineskins Association<\/a> has published a proposed Strategy Report<\/a> (warning – large PDF – over 150 pages) calling for a schism from the PC(USA) denomination.<\/p>\n

Well, OK.\u00a0 It doesn’t actually SAY that this is a schism.\u00a0 In fact the report goes out of the way to avoid calling it a schism.\u00a0 But let’s face it – what they want is the wholesale departure of a large number of PC(USA) congregations to another denomination.\u00a0 That’s a schism.<\/p>\n

What this group is pushing is for all New Wineskins congregations to leave the PC(USA)<\/a> and go to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church<\/a>.\u00a0 The New Wineskins group will ask the EPC General Assembly next June to allow for non-geographical presbyteries.\u00a0 They will then ask to create a New Wineskins EPC presbytery to contain all New Wineskins PC(USA) congregations that want to leave.\u00a0 That presbytery will be self-governing, and all officers and congregations will be required to the Essential Tenets of the New Wineskins Association AND their Ethical Imperatives.\u00a0 It should be noted that “destructive speech, unforgiveness” are listed in their Ethical Imperatives, though they use PLENTY of such speech in their Strategy Paper.\u00a0 At some point this presbytery can either be folded into the EPC or possibly create a new denomination – the EPC and this presbytery will hold discussions over time on which way to go.<\/p>\n

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Those interested in the roots of this schism should read a document from Perspectives (published by the PC(USA) Office of the General Assembly) titled Presbyterians and Separatist Evangelicals: A Continuing Dilemma<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0This is admittedly written by from a leftward leaning point of view, but it is a very scholarly document that shows the roots of our ongoing controversies and splits.<\/p>\n

And for God’s sake – let’s get this over with and move on.