This long tweet 🧵 is mainly for my PCA colleagues who are meeting at our denominational assembly. As we gather, I believe it is wrong to dismiss the concerns of “conservatives” in the PCA [quote marks because the whole PCA is very conservative] who want to be vigilant 1/7
in a culture that is moving into a more highly secular, and anti-religious direction. It’s right to assume that such a pervasive, anti-Christian culture may have a powerful influence on especially our younger generations. Its also right to assume that the cultural winds are 2/7
against orthodox, evangelical Christianity and that it will be very difficult to thrive and grow as a denomination going forward. As a whole body, we should be talking about this—how will we convert people and grow as a faithful communion in a culture like the one that is 3/7
forming now? We should not be fighting each other but working on this question together. But we must be careful of not bringing into the PCA the talking points and the terminology of political secular conservatism or secular progressivism, which can be found in their respective 4
media and social media worlds. This will divide us too. The only solution is, in in all our interactions, to stay extremely close to the Bible and our confessions, and ground everything we say and do in them. If you worry about “CRT”—provide biblical or confessional 5/7
categories to define what you mean. If you call for “justice” be sure to root it in close readings of specific Scriptural passages where the word is used. Lets let the Bible & our theology critique the full range of political ideologies behind our current cultural polarization
so we do not allow the Church of Jesus Christ to be pawns in any particular secular political war. 7/7
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