How shall the PRCA respond to chastisement? Or: When God “walks contrary”
Prof. Barry Gritters examines God's chastisement upon the PRCA through recent trials including the 2021 schism and exposure of sexual abuse among church leaders, calling the denomination to recognize and respond to God's heavy hand. The article wrestles with how the PRCA should understand and respond to these calamities as discipline from the Lord, invoking Leviticus 26 and questions of covenant faithfulness and divine sovereignty.
And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant… and…will walk contrary unto me; then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins. Leviticus 26:15, 23, 24 God's heavy hand has fallen upon the PRCA in recent years. First was the schism of 2021 and all that precipitated it and follows it. Doctrinal error. Controversy. Criticism. Suspicions. Warfare....
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