Sunday 10 May 2015


The Word of God or…

Yesterday was a most enjoyable and beneficial day spent at the Scottish Reformed Conference. We were blessed with solid expositions of the Word of God from Steven Curry and Kevin DeYoung.

They gave fairly broad brush expositions of Matthew 5, 6 and 7.  Steven spoke on the dangers of hypocrisy from Matthew 6, challenging the congregation with their heart attitude in regard to giving, praying and fasting.  Kevin dealt with the commitment of Christ to Scripture and his authority in teaching.  The primacy, authority and clarity of Scripture were underlined and emphasised.

This is what the church in Scotland needs: solid, spiritual exposition of the Word of God.

Meanwhile, in St George’s Tron Church of Scotland an alternative was on offer.  This is the building where Eric Alexander and Sinclair Ferguson ministered.  When the congregation left over the Church of Scotland’s abandonment of Scripture and embracing of active homosexual conduct the denomination seized the property and refused to negotiate its sale to the congregation. Instead, the Kirk established a new congregation and moved in a new minister heavily subsidized by the denomination.

So what is the pattern of ministry in this new congregation?  The banner outside the building says it all:



So there you are.  No mention of Scripture but instead a mishmash of new age charismatic heresy.

Meanwhile the true Tron church continues to minister the Word of God at their new location, probably the largest evangelical congregation in Glasgow.

When you reject the authority, clarity and sufficiency of Scripture it is but an easy road to charismatic confusion. Liberalism and charismatic new revelation can co-exist in an apostate denomination; what they share is a rejection of the finality and sufficiency of Scripture.

Our hope is that the few truly Reformed men in the national denomination will realise that their true fellowship is not with those who supplant or supplement Scripture, but with those who uphold the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture.  Our prayers are with them as they face a forthcoming GA where the rejection of Scripture will be formalised and finalised.  They will try to resist these moves, and for this we commend them.  But what will they do if the national church ignores their appeals and continues on the road of the rejection of Scripture.  I noted with interest that Kevin DeYoung made clear his own congregation’s course of action in a similar situation – they are leaving in order to maintain a truly biblical testimony.

Audio of the SRC addresses will soon be available at:




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