I just read this article, and something jumped out at me that really explains a lot in my mind.
It says that Hahn’s wife is the daughter of Dr. Jerry Kirk, a presbyterian minister in Cincinnati. I’ve listened to Dr. Kirk for a long season, and nearly joined with his church at that time. He is an incredibly gifted preacher, and as I recall, he was a good Calvinist. He built a huge Presbyterian church in a declining part of town in a location that could have been far better.
That isn’t the point, though. What is significant is that Dr. Kirk has been in the forefront of the battle against homosexuality in the Presbyterian church. For years he has be unfairly ostracized and villified despite his obvious Godly calling.
My guess is that his daughter saw all this and rejected Presbyterianism and mainline Protestantism as an act of revulsion toward their unfair treatment of her father.
My other guess is that she either went easily along with Hahn, or even led, in their departure from that injurious protestant relationship she had witnessed her entire life.
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Read the book, she didn’t go along easily.
It’s still just “guessing.’ Carried too far, guessing can evolve into rash judgment.
The Hahns had departed the PCUSA long before. The church Scott pastored in Virginia was a conservative breakaway from the OPC, which itself was a conservative breakaway from what became the PCUSA.
My other guess is that she either went easily along with Hahn, or even led
Totally wrong. She fought it tooth and nail. A quote from the book runs something like, "I knew some Catholics were Christians, but I would not have dated one. Now I was about to be married to one!".