PCUSA Rejects Hymn “In Christ Alone”

caffinated thoughts ^ | Shane Vander Hart

[Morgana]

Timothy George reports the PCUSA Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song voted against including the popular hymn “In Christ Alone” from their latest hymnal. He writes:

Recently, the wrath of God became a point of controversy in the decision of the Presbyterian Committee on Congregational Song to exclude from its new hymnal the much-loved song “In Christ Alone” by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. The Committee wanted to include this song because it is being sung in many churches, Presbyterian and otherwise, but they could not abide this line from the third stanza: “Till on that cross as Jesus died/the wrath of God was satisfied.” For this they wanted to substitute: “…as Jesus died/the love of God was magnified.” The authors of the hymn insisted on the original wording, and the Committee voted nine to six that “In Christ Alone” would not be among the eight hundred or so items in their new hymnal.

[elpadre]

“If you attend a PCUSA church, no matter how sound that individual congregation is....you are tacitly supporting the apostasy controling the larger denomination.”

I don't agree. There are hundreds of churches throughout the land whose national churches have been infiltrated by the left who have been successful in making denominational changes. But the individual churches have rejected the changes and remain faithful to the faith passed down through the ages.

Technically, the building belongs to the national church, but it was build, maintained over the years by the faithful. They have married, baptized, confirmed and buried their family there sometimes for generations. They are not going to turn over their church to an unseen bureaucratic church, nor should they. They just do their best, in His Holy Name.

[AnalogReigns]

There are hundreds of churches throughout the land whose national churches have been infiltrated by the left who have been successful in making denominational changes. But the individual churches have rejected the changes and remain faithful to the faith passed down through the ages.

True, however the REASON mainline denominations continue to be controled by non-believers is because of the ENABLING that otherwise biblically faithful congregations provide, in paying their required dues.

If the individual churches which are biblically faithful....REFUSED TO GO ALONG WITH SUPPORTING the apostastate denominational leadership, the mainlines couldn't operate. Instead, people remain "nice" and get along to go along, ignoring the fact that the mainline Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Churches of Christ, etc., ALL, are on record strongly supporting abortion, euthanasia, homosexual clergy, sexual immorality, communist regimes, and ignoring the authority of the Bible.

If you stay in an organization which is anti-biblical, and anti-Christian--even if you don't directly participate in it's apostasy--none-the-less you are lending support to that apostasy--just because you're there.

Biblically faithful believers who remain in those mainline denominations are like genuinely conservative "Democrats" who hate everything the Democrat party now stands for...but remain Democrats, supporting Democrat candidates they despise.....just because, well, they and their family have always been Democrats.