The Juggernaut Moves
No sooner are the Church of
Scotland presbytery results announced supporting members and office-bearers in
same sex marriage than the denominational juggernaut trundles into action.
Firstly, Covenant Fellowship
Scotland are told that they must remove the denominational logo from their
website. They may wish to speak to the
denomination, but they cannot be seen as speaking for the denomination. They comply, and replace the official logo
with an older Irish burning bush.
Secondly, Inverness Presbytery had
already been told that they cannot dissent from the same sex partnership/marriage
legislation. A court of the church cannot dissociate itself from the decision
of a higher court it seems. They comply,
and reverse their dissociation, (at least at a presbytery level.)
This would also apply to Kirk
Sessions. Any Kirk Sessions who have
informed their congregation of their rejection of the Assembly legislation will
presumably have to re-inform them that they cannot, as a Kirk Session, do
so. Will we see liberal presbyteries
scour the minutes of evangelical churches to make sure there is compliance?
We already know that the
denomination have declared that no congregation can leave the Church of
Scotland. They may do so as an aggregate
of individuals, but officially they cannot do so as a congregation. Their property and money, of course, cannot
go with them.
Do not expect an even-handed,
gracious response from the denomination.
The liberal progressives have won; there will be no policy of amicable
dismissal of congregations, there will be no presbytery no-go areas, there will
be no reversal of the anti-biblical moral and doctrinal apostasy.
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