Presbyterian and Reformed

David French gotta be David French https://twitter.com/TDnormandy110/status/1462143729406517257

Interesting look at what the handful of PCA conservatives think about. Why care about Mark Driscoll?

My question is that if they are still in the PCA, there needs to be a good reason. "My church is not that bad" is not one of them. That this bingo card exists shows a certain kind of cynicism that can lead to apathy and word-weariness.

Also, I have never had a discussion of the 1689 LBC, Quia subscription, RUF, Hodge's WCF Commentary, GA minutes, or the yrr fad from 20 years ago. Who are these people?

https://twitter.com/zoeschimke/status/1459297532295716869

https://smile.amazon.com/Care-Souls-Cultivating-Pastors-Heart/dp/1683593014 Look at this. It won a bunch of book awards. Horton wrote the forward. The writing is above-average. And, as a Lutheran, the author does not have the experimental option of assurance by works over his congregation's heads.

We're cannibalizing our religion in the name of soft skills and heart piety. Can we have some time where we talk about something besides our feelings?

Therapy is a trillion dollar industry and focusing on the heart forces ministers to compete in a zero sum game with everyone from yoga teachers to Big Pharma. Not only is it oversaturated, it reeks of man-made tradition, Where is all this cure of souls stuff in scripture and where are pastors called to do it?

It is really easy to talk about the heart when your job isn't being shipped to China, your kid isn't being taught to love the rainbow, and your denomination isn't going liberal.

I'm sure the author would be offended by my comparison, if he cards what I thought. The dirty little secret is that we are all terrible sinners and our souls aren't necessarily going to be cured in this life. The same goes for our social condition and physical suffering.

So beyond a certain point of necessary self-examination, focusing on the inner man is counterproductive. As a Lutheran, the author should already know this,

After decades of being told about the rising influence of Christian rap, the hip-hop scene chooses occultism instead. It is like heavy metal in the 1980s.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/astroworld-tragedy-conspiracy-theories/

https://twitter.com/presbycast/status/1458148615059394569 I'm not sure what NAPARC actually does. It once included the liberal CRC. It still includes the PCA, the fundamentalist FRCNA (Paisleyites) and the IMHO neonomian CanRC (Liberated movement).

Is it working toward a unified American Reformed orthodoxy?

Does it do anything to restrain liberalism, social gospel, and broad evangelicalism?

Am I expected to say that all NAPARC members are true churches?

Why are there so many Reformed denominations not represented (BPC, FCC, NRC, PRCA, RPCGA, RPCUS, Vanguard, Evangel, Hanover)?

If the PCA is "Reformed," why not other loose-but-not-totally-modernist groups like the EPC, CCCC, ECO and the Presbyterian Laymen wing of the PC(USA)?

If CanRC, is acceptable, why not the CREC, which has an authoritarian church government but much the same theology?

In short, not only am I confused about the purpose of NAPARC, I don't understand the membership list.