As he prepares to turn the gavel over to his successor, Taylor leaves his perspective on what he sees as the six critical questions now facing the PCA.

After extensive prayer and discussion, we realized that as challenging as this situation was, part of what we were being called to do was adapt.

Given the grassroots nature of these innovations, there are likely other new seminary models within the PCA.

Though the presbyteries perceived different problems leading to presbytery dysfunction, Bruce O’Neil believes the underlying issue is a lack of trust.

Accardy is blunt about the fact that his congregation doesn’t mirror much of the denomination: “We are not an upper middle-class professional church.”

“We need to listen and learn from them about abuse and what is needed for healing,” Diane Langberg said. “It is incarnational work.”

Townsend spent 13 years on the National Christian Foundation executive team before becoming the newly elected president of the PCA Foundation.

An experienced mentor who asks good questions, offers encouragement, and helps an individual apply the gospel to every area of his or her life can be the difference between someone who perseveres in or walks away from ministry.

“In seeing what was going on in the lives of people serving the church, we decided we could no longer just write checks.”

We need a culture — informed and shaped by God’s people — that celebrates what it means to provide