Cheers for ABC Pacific Southwest

By now most ABCers have heard that the ABC of the Pacific Southwest has begun formal action to withdraw from the Covenant of Relationships with ABCUSA. This action was one that someone had to take sooner or later. The ABCUSA had already spiritually left covenant with its churches and regions by refusing to uphold biblical standards for churches associated with the national body. The idea that ABCUSA is a biblical Christian denomination is simply an organizational fiction.

For a long time I have felt that reformation in ABCUSA is possible only if a large group of churches leave in protest of denominational faithlessness, and thereby galvanize the remaining evangelical churches into becoming an ER Trauma Team striving to save the life of the patient.

I applaud ABCPSW, I cheer them. They have set the stage for Bible believing churches, regions, pastors, and laypeople to make their own choice to, either, aggressively work to bring the national organization to a biblical stance, or to finally give up on a denomination gone sour.

In spite of our history with ABCUSA, and our love for ABCUSA, it is time to consider the wisdom of the protestant reformer, Martin Luther. “It is better to be divided by truth, than united by error.”

PRAY FOR REFORMATION

Please pray for the evangelical, Bible believing pastors, lay people, and organization leaders who are gathering at Northern Seminary for the American Baptist Evangelicals' A Summons to Lead conference September 23, 24th. I ask you to pray that we will have the courage, the will, the discernment, and the sense of urgency to make a decision that will restructure ABCUSA through our own evangelical organization. Those committed to preaching obedience to the written Word of God can wait no longer, we need action or might as well just give the denomination up for lost. Without reformation ABCUSA is nothing more than the Episcopal Church USA in Baptist drag. Pray that the A Summons to Lead conference will be our Wittenberg door, and that ABCUSA will be brought to a biblical worldview that conforms the relationship of the denominational leadership to the teaching of the Bible and the understanding of the majority of our churches. Pray!