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Feb 12 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Easy: b/c the PCA aligned itself with the SBC has been dragged into all of their controversies as well as broader evangelical nonsense. Anglicans have their own Anglican-centric views of all things X & the PCA isn’t Presbyterian-centric. For most it’s a polity, not a worldview.
For example, where’s the Presbyterian (PCA) version of this? Because of infant baptism, Presbyterian have a different moral theology than evangelicals. Lutherans know there own as well. Book: Anglican Moral Choice (The Anglican Studies Series) amazon.com/dp/0819213225/…
I would argue that people aren’t leaving Presbyterianism. They are leaving evangelical churches with a Presbyterian polity for a communion that forms people in a distinct tradition, protected, historically, from revivalism & evangelical culture war narcissism, & is sacramental.
Because of covenant theology & Presbyterian polity, Presbyterians should not be on the same page with Baptists, evangelicals, or Anglicans on the role/function of government. No one in a PCA teaches Presbyterian political theory. And on and on…That’s why. amazon.com/gp/aw/d/113850…
(FTR, when I say Anglicanism I don’t just mean the ACNA. I mean Anglicanism in general. I know about what’s happening in the ACNA as they are receiving more and more former fundamentalists & evangelicals. The Anglican formation learning curve is going to take a while.)
Confessional Presbyterianism isn’t the point. Orthodox cultivate an Orthodox mind. Catholics a Catholic mind. Lutherans a Lutheran mind. Anglicans an Anglican mind. PCA Presbyterians? They want people to be evangelicals.🤦🏽‍♂️ There is not formation of a Presbyterian identity.🤷🏾‍♂️

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When you ask college guys *why* they join frats you’ll hear them say that it’s the first time their ever experienced brotherly-love in community, being accepted as they are, having group encouragement & support, guys building them up, etc. This guy’s a Christian & needed a frat.
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This isn't really true. Maybe he only knows a few people so the sample size is small. But the evangelical dunking on Jordan Peterson is often out of envy. He's a Jungian psychologist and I've known lots of guys exhibiting "Fruits of the Spirit" after reading "The 12 Rules" book.
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