[outinyellowdogcountry]

I attend a SBC church. It is different in many ways to what I have known as SB or I wouldn’t go there. But it is SBC. My pastor is mid-thirties and a very good teacher/preacher. But I feel my age in his response to some things, he is so of the millennial generation I guess. He is conservative however. So he was re-tweeting comments from the convention and one was something like ‘not one soul is worth losing over the confederate flag flying’. That sounded kind of silly to me because my pastor and all the young guns leading our church are staunchly ‘reformed’. If God elects, would the confederate flag negate God’s election? Anyway, I love my pastor and the church. The things about politics and a few issues like this make me think,really? You just thought of that? I don’t know. I’m getting old I guess. I certainly don’t have all the answers. Maybe that is what age does to us.

[ilovesarah2012]

On the one hand I think the church needs to be out there in cultural matters, getting the biblical point of view heard. On the other hand, I think we need to concentrate on bringing people to the love of Jesus and letting Him guide them.

I also don’t want to lose the old hymns. :)

[Wallace T.]

A denomination that defines itself doctrinally as Reformed and which is considered conservative, the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is going the same route of wussification. This denomination, founded in 1973, did not exist during the civil rights era. It was founded as a split from the Presbyterian Church in the United States, which had agreed to a merger with the liberal Northern Presbyterian denomination. However, many of its congregations predate the denomination, and many members and some pastors opposed the civil rights movement of the 1960s. However, most of these people are dead. There were also tax cheats, adulterers, slanderers, etc., in the Southern Presbyterian, or for that matter Southern Baptist, congregations of that era. Should we renounce these sins as well? As for the black churches, maybe they should apologize for their encouragement and excusing of race riots in the past, not to mention Black Lives Matter thuggery in the present. I won't hold my breath to see the African Methodist Episcopal Church or similar bodies issuing such apologies.

Using covenantal theology is merely a thin disguise for assuaging guilt for the sins, real and imagined, of their grandparents and great-grandparents. I am sick and tired of hearing wimpy so-called conservative denominations like the SBC and the PCA apologizing for being white. Sorry, but were it not for Europeans and their descendants in the Americas, the world would at best be at medieval levels in technology. Life would still be brutal, short, nasty and mean.