PCUSA Can't Decide How to Address God?
The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. (PCUSA) has decided not to decide what kind of language ought to be used when addressing God or talking about Him.
According to a June 19 Associated Press report ("Presbyterians 'Receive' Policy" by Richard Ostling), the PCUSA at its annual general assembly voted to "receive" a policy paper approving "gender-neutral language" for the worship of God. "That means church officials can propose experimental liturgies with gender-neutral language for the Trinity, but congregations won't be required to use them," the AP reported.
The PCUSA is trying to have its cake and it eat, too--appease the feminists and gay-affirmers without driving any more Biblically-faithful Christians out of the denomination. The feminists et al don't want to have to say the words "Father" or "Son," although those are the words the Bible uses.
They propose speaking of the Holy Trinity as "Mother, Child, and Womb," or "Lover, Beloved, and Love," or "Creator, Savior, and Sanctifier," and so on. The assembly highlighted its Monday business session by singing a version of the Doxology ("Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow") that avoided the words "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."
I don't know about you, but my mother always taught me you can't please everybody, and you're foolish if you try. Apparently the PCUSA delegates never learned that lesson.
They want to cover their bases by "allowing" congregations to continue to use Biblical language for God, if they so desire. This in a denomination already hemorrhaging membership due to its flirtations with paganism, Gnosticism, feminism, and homosexual clergy!
Their latest caper only identifies them as lukewarm Christians, neither hot nor cold, whose fate will be to be spewed out by Christ Himself (see Revelation 3:16).
Another lesson it seems the PCUSA leadership has not learned is that no man can serve two masters. The PCUSA is now trying to serve both God and popular opinion. But putting popular opinion on a par with God, they have already betrayed their rightful Lord.
For the time being, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision" (Psalm 2). That's Verse 4. If they persist in their course, they'll have Verse 5 to deal with: "Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure."
There are still faithful Christians in the PCUSA--but for how much longer?
According to a June 19 Associated Press report ("Presbyterians 'Receive' Policy" by Richard Ostling), the PCUSA at its annual general assembly voted to "receive" a policy paper approving "gender-neutral language" for the worship of God. "That means church officials can propose experimental liturgies with gender-neutral language for the Trinity, but congregations won't be required to use them," the AP reported.
The PCUSA is trying to have its cake and it eat, too--appease the feminists and gay-affirmers without driving any more Biblically-faithful Christians out of the denomination. The feminists et al don't want to have to say the words "Father" or "Son," although those are the words the Bible uses.
They propose speaking of the Holy Trinity as "Mother, Child, and Womb," or "Lover, Beloved, and Love," or "Creator, Savior, and Sanctifier," and so on. The assembly highlighted its Monday business session by singing a version of the Doxology ("Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow") that avoided the words "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."
I don't know about you, but my mother always taught me you can't please everybody, and you're foolish if you try. Apparently the PCUSA delegates never learned that lesson.
They want to cover their bases by "allowing" congregations to continue to use Biblical language for God, if they so desire. This in a denomination already hemorrhaging membership due to its flirtations with paganism, Gnosticism, feminism, and homosexual clergy!
Their latest caper only identifies them as lukewarm Christians, neither hot nor cold, whose fate will be to be spewed out by Christ Himself (see Revelation 3:16).
Another lesson it seems the PCUSA leadership has not learned is that no man can serve two masters. The PCUSA is now trying to serve both God and popular opinion. But putting popular opinion on a par with God, they have already betrayed their rightful Lord.
For the time being, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision" (Psalm 2). That's Verse 4. If they persist in their course, they'll have Verse 5 to deal with: "Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore displeasure."
There are still faithful Christians in the PCUSA--but for how much longer?
