Reformation 21, the online magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, has graciously give Reasoning Together permission to republish a series of exchanges between Rev. Nelson Jennings and Rev. David B. Garner on the report of the Ad-Interim Committee on Insider Movements so that we may invite your interaction with them.

Other presbyterian denominations have felt the need to amend the Standards to reflect the changing times and their changing convictions, but the PCA continues to find remarkable utility in our Confession and Catechisms.

While Leino doesn’t want the overture to be interpreted as opposition to the appointment of the Women in Ministry Study Committee, he is concerned about “the manner” in which it was formed. In Leino’s view, it “did not reflect the strength of our form of government.”

The Reasoning Together editor shares his reflections on the Houston Assembly.

Thirty-nine presbyteries and one individual teaching elder have submitted a total of fifty-two overtures requesting action by the 42nd General Assembly of the PCA.

“And a voice came from heaven, ‘You are my beloved Messiah; with you I am well pleased.'” This declaration is the familiar pronouncement of God’s favor upon Jesus, at the time of his baptism. Well, not quite.

The question then becomes: Can we find anything more deserving of thanksgiving than this?

“The persistent goal of biblical economic life is the feast where we are feasting together.”

Though our founding heroes were flawed men, they were used by God to forge a continuing church that preserved much of American Presbyterianism’s best, those very things that attracted me at the start.

In China, freer markets have done little to free people. And our buying habits may be part of the problem.