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Agreed. I was just highlighting how these issues are pushing the envelope. People are trying to be creative to get around the prohibition, kind of like tax lawyers.
[align=center]Article 28: The Obligations of Church Members
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We believe that since this holy assembly and congregation is the gathering of those who are saved and there is no salvation apart from it, no one ought to withdraw from it, content to be by himself, regardless of his status or condition.
But all people are obliged to join and unite with it, keeping the unity of the church by submitting to its instruction and discipline, by bending their necks under the yoke of Jesus Christ, and by serving to build up one another, according to the gifts God has given them as members of each other in the same body.
And to preserve this unity more effectively, it is the duty of all believers, according to God's Word, to separate themselves from those who do not belong to the church, in order to join this assembly wherever God has established it, even if civil authorities and royal decrees forbid and death and physical punishment result.
And so, all who withdraw from the church or do not join it act contrary to God's ordinance.
Originally posted by Scott
No. What is that about?
Here is an issue I am familiar with that is popping up in various places, including our own nearby PCPC. Some churches are letting women teach adult mixed-sex Sunday Schools. To stave off the criticism about letting a woman teach orhave authority over a man, they claim that the woman teacher is exercising her teaching role under the authority of elders who are also in the class.
Originally posted by Scott
To stave off the criticism about letting a woman teach orhave authority over a man, they claim that the woman teacher is exercising her teaching role under the authority of elders who are also in the class.
you thought that was weak, you should hear Norman Geiesler trying to refute Predestination, as well as try to say that Calvin didn't mean what he said.Originally posted by puritangirl
I agree with you. I listened to a sermon by a PCUSA pastor in town on this subject and he had some sort of explanation as to why Adam was the one who named the animals, but I don't remember what it was now. Whatever it was, it was weak. It started frustrating me so I turned it off...its frustrating to hear a man as intelligent as this pastor go to such great lengths to pervert a plain and simple truth of Scripture that, from Genesis chapter 1, is stated so clearly.