[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.

[outinyellowdogcountry]

Your post clarified something for me. All churches should condemn sin, regardless of the type while lifting high the name of Jesus, forgiver of sin and Redeemer of souls! It made me think that in light of the confederate flag, it doesn’t belong in church and to some people it does mean celebrating the sin of slavery. We don’t hold symbols of other sins in churches. Wait, we have lots of pot luck meals.

The tweet about keeping someone from becoming a believer, however it was stated, was contradictory to me, if you believe it is God’s choosing.

As far as the confederate flag in public display etc. I agree that it isn’t necessary to try and erase history. You are 100% correct that Black Lives Matter should be condemned due to the violence, death and mayhem they stand for. How many generations will it take?