PCUSA rejects popular hymn “In Christ Alone”

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[xzins]

Ten years ago I would have thought that is crazy talk. Today I’m not so sure....

If all books become digits, and require a digital reader, the phasing out of reading by stopping the production of new readers and new digits wouldn't be outside the bounds of possibility.

[AnalogReigns]

PCUSA IDOL: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.” ~ H. Richard Niebuhr

[Gamecock]

That.

[HarleyD]

You know it's all very well to say that this is not your Church or mine, but the falling away of the PCUSA, the ELCA, ECUSA etc. are only accelerating the secularists attack on the rest of us

While we might not understand it, God is sovereign and everything we see around us is going according to His divine plan. God is not mock. Whatever a man sows, that he will reap. God just expects us to love justice, do kindness and to walk humbly with Him. Persecution may come but we will fear no evil. This is not our homeland. We're only passing through.

[Lee N. Field]

everything we see around us is going according to His divine plan. God is not mock. Whatever a man sows, that he will reap.

I work to remember that, lately.

Our ruling class seems ever more foolish. And, this is in the hand of God. Quite possibly a judgment.

This is not our homeland. We're only passing through.

"The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart;devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; he enters into peace;"

[darrellmaurina]

Thank you for posting this and pinging the GRPL — you beat me to it.

I am not a fan of modern “Christian contemporary” music. Most of it is drivel, some of it is heretical, and a very large part of it is intended to appeal to emotional excitement. And even if none of that were true, my personal preference is psalmody (not exclusive, but I think God gave us the psalms for a reason and we ought to use them).

This appears to be a rare case where the composers were orthodox, stood their ground, and refused to let liberals change the song lyrics.

Good for them.

[Cronos]

However God does let us.defend ourselves. We need to work to prevent the secularists rise

[HarleyD]

Yes, we have an obligation to stand up for godly principles and to exhibit God's love. But still, all the same, God is moving forward to His plan.

Rom_8:28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Everything around us is for our good and benefit, although it is difficult to understand that principle. Why do some Christians face severe persecution while other Christians seem to live a good life. I'm not sure but there is a purpose for the things that God calls us to do, just as He had Elijah preach while He hid his other prophets in caves as well as had some in the employment of Ahab acting as spies. All was doing just what God wanted them to do.

I remember Orthodox Presbyterian used to say this earth was the believers training ground. That was so insightful for that is exactly what this world is.

[Cronos]

Guys — yes, God is moving forward in His plan, but that Plan includes us.

[HarleyD]

That Plan is for us to be joint heirs with Christ. Adopted into His family. Ambassadors for His cause. Why and for what purpose is unknown.

Eph 2:5-10 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive ... and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places...so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches ...toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.