'Church Polity' Category

Bruce Reyes - Chow Is Moderator

June 22nd, 2008 · Posted in Church Polity, Current Affairs · 0 Comments

Those of you who follow my blog will know that I have had 3 posts about Rev. Bruce Reyes - Chow — who was a candidate for moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA). This post was where I sent him questions — this one where he answered them — and [...]

Bruce Reyes - Chow’s Answers

June 4th, 2008 · Posted in Church Polity, Practical Ministry, What's Going On With Me · 2 Comments

Last night I posted 5 questions for Bruce Reyes - Chow, a candidate for moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USA.
He has responded with answers that, as he described them in an e-mail to me, are: “in a free-flow manner as if we were sitting at a cafe sharing a [...]

5 Questions for Bruce Reyes-Chow

June 3rd, 2008 · Posted in Church Polity, Practical Ministry, What's Going On With Me · 3 Comments

Bruce Reyes-Chow is a Presbyterian minister who is running for moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, USA. He has an interesting feature on his blog where he asks folks to send him questions and then post his answers on their blog.
Here are some questions I am going to [...]

What Issues Are Important Enough To Cause A Split?

February 20th, 2007 · Posted in Christianity, Church Polity, Current Affairs, Reflections, Religion, Theology · 0 Comments

With splits within the Presbyterian Church (USA) making headlines and some feeling they need to separate themselves from others instead of “stand with” them, I found this post at the Pyromaniacs to be interesting.
The point of the post is that unity is more important than schism within a church, and our witness for Christ is [...]

Dissolving Relationships

July 30th, 2006 · Posted in Church Polity, What's Going On With Me · 0 Comments

You may remember my post of a few weeks ago where I wrote of accepting a call to be Pastor of Hopewell Presbyerian Church in Florence, SC.
Today the Wentworth Presbyterian Church — where I have served for 23 years — voted to “dissolve the pastoral relationship” - - a vote no one was really [...]