What's wrong with weekly communion
--->if my elders have decided that it is Biblical to offer communion once per month. Then the statement that weekly communion is the only Scriptural command is wrong contradicts my church's stand and Wilson stays that they are deficient in their thinking to allow monthly communion. i think that the timing is adiaphoria and assent to the rule of my elders on the issue.
a parish mentality (educating your children at the church and so forth)
--->parish mentality is first that you are required to go to the nearest church, that is the essence of parish, not that you can attend any PCA in the city, but must attend the nearest.
the nearest PCA to me is Spanish speaking, i do not believe that the parish mentality is appropriate nor useful in a modern large city.
observing the Lord's Day (confessional)
--->He basically says that both weak Sabbatarians and not-Sabbatarians are so deficient theologically to be unsaved, essentially making it a crucial salvation issue.
i believe this is both too strong and wrong. I think that Real Christians(tm) can be not or even anti-Sabbatarian. i personally think that the Sabbath is part of the ceremonial law and that is why we worship on Sunday not the Sabbath, it is far more than a simple day change, the whole content is changed. We rest first, and then work, the Jews worked and then rested. the whole metaphor is radically different since the Resurrection.
, and following the Lord's command that the children of elders should be "believers"?
-->in the PCA it is thought to refer to children in the household.
this is the fundamental answer i got from my Pastor.
As far as I know, no PCA Pastor is defrocked if his adult children are unbelievers.
Wilson makes this a crucial element for elders and basically says that if you do not practice this then your church is ungodly and too liberal to be really Christian.
and that you will lose the culture wars because you don't practice Biblical discipline on the elders.
on subscription
--->the PCA has two centers of gravity on the issue, more strict and less strict. Wilson essentially says that the less strict is Biblically in error and will lead to liberalism. I assent to the wisdom of my denomination and think they made the right decision (or is it the left decision *grin*) and he is in essence saying throughout the book that the PCA is apostate, and only his Christ Church and associated churches are TR and Truely Christian.
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Has anyone else here read this book? It has been very challenging (in the Spiritual sense) & uplifting. I would highly recommend to all out there.
