And good men often have good lives: happy families, leisure time, hobbies, and friends. These things turn nasty political, these things eat up time and energy, tensions get high, friendships get frayed, and meanwhile there are still sermons to prepare, fundraising to do, and millions of people who don’t know Jesus, who need to hear the gospel of grace. I know why good men don’t have time for this. What I want to lay out here is a sketch for why many good men on the ground who care about missions and church planting and evangelism really have to care about this kind of thing and the hundreds of others like it. And nothing about the announced change of venue from the South City PCA elders should calm anyone down, since their statement amounts to a paper shuffling “nothing to see here.” But men of conviction in the PCA really do need to rise up with their Bible in hand and bring a bunch of questions to their sessions, pastors, and presbyteries in a spirit of holy consternation. Those qualifications included a full-throated insistence on biblical standards for justice and due process and the complete rejection of mobs, virtual or otherwise. Douglas Wilson already explained the general lay of the land in the latest PCA, Covenant Seminary sexual confusion fiasco, including a number of well-framed paragraphs qualifying the overarching call to arms.
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