Response to "An Open Letter To the PC(USA)"
Image via Wikipedia I have been reading and re-reading An Open Letter to the Presbyterian Church (USA) that was recently released by an as-yet-unnamed "Fellowship" of PC(USA) pastors. It begins thusly: To say the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is deathly ill is not editorializing but acknowledging reality. Over the past year, a group of PC(USA) pastors has become convinced that to remain locked in unending controversy will only continue a slow demise, dishonor our calling, and offer a poor legacy to those we hope will follow us. First, I have to say that I agree with that statement wholeheartedly--as much as it pains me to say it. I have been a Presbyterian for nearly twenty years, served on staff at three different PC(USA) churches and have been an ordained minister of the Word and Sacrament in the PC(USA) for the past six years. In those twenty years, I have seen our denomination continue to decline, continue to splinter and continue to stumb...