Rev Bill

Noel Anderson at Andersonspeak is posting answers to points that people are making about why churches should leave the Presbyterian Church (USA). The first point he answers is the one that we should leave because we are ticked off. The second he answers is the one that we should leave because we can. The third reason he answers is that we should leave because we are afraid. The fourth reason he answers is that Churches could attract new, younger people if they were not in the denomination. The fifth is Because every congregation is it’s own entity. The sixth reason he hears responds to is: Because we want to protect our property.

Now — the seventh reason he hears — and responds to: Because the war is lost.

His response goes along the lines of his other responses:

Some say it is too late already—the tide has turned, the Liberals have control, yada yada yada—the final effect being that it is time to abandon ship because stay/fight/win is impossible. Impossible? Says whom? We understand battle-weary, deflated, defeated (at least temporarily and in part), and sick-to-our-stomachs-over-it-all, but impossible?

Stay/fight/win has not triumphed because we only stay; we don’t fight. Evangelicals don’t think it’s right to act in anger or otherwise descend to anything reeking of violence. So we lose.

In other words, walking away is giving up — and losing. I agree with Anderson — it’s better to fight and lose than to quit and not fight.

To illustrate this, Anderson gives 2 videos — one more “highbrow” than the other.

You can read Anderson’s entire post here.

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