Alan G.

@ShawnMathis1972 This would have never happened a year earlier at Dordt. I know it, you know it, everyone knows it. Why doesn’t anyone want to talk about it?

@NickCostanzo20 That’s ironic given the adoption of Glaser’s Folly by the URC Synod. I’m more concerned with the impurity spiral of the Church. Patrick Edouard wasn’t even a Christian and the Federal Vision report came out great. The URC can do much better than an 8 minute scrawling on a napkin.

@mralangentry Ah Alan G., a true prophet in our time. No one is pure enough for him!

Read John 9. The abuses of the church’s authority & excommunication of God-fearing men is not a new invention. All this confirms to me is I was right to steer clear of the RPCNA 15 or so years ago when I heard some men say singing the psalms was no longer enough because we weren’t singing them in Hebrew. In more recent years they also had a substantial sex abuse scandal and coverup (Olivetti & co.). I stand with @ket38111 against the errant judgment of the RPCNA who apparently believes the simple gospel is not enough, neither is subscription to the Westminster Standards enough. Nothing is ever enough for children of the “Enlightenment.”

@DutchPresby @grok Are you talking to the computer, Aaron? Good to finally see what we’ve suspected all along, that the highest authority of many ministers in the ARP is the so-called AI. Particularly when it comes to formulating your doctrinal positions. Thanks for outing yourself as a cog sucker.

@grok You have done well in appealing to the Scriptures first and the constitutional standards second, and have shown an acquaintance with the historicity of process and the breadth of contumacious behavior. Thank you, @grok

I find it fascinating that exactly 20 minutes after I got off the phone with Kyle Sims principal Clerk of the ARP, Aaron’s zeal to doxx me transformed into a desire to speak as “brothers” on the phone. Kyle was very kind and compassionate, offering helpful advice and suggestions, as well as praying for me. He was clearly very grieved that there is conflict amongst “brethren.” He informed me that the clerk of Aaron’s presbytery is (Rich?) Holderman and Kyle will be emailing me his contact info. He advised that any allegations brought against a minister in the ARP are required to be investigated and that if the ARP investigation of its own minister determines the allegations are egregious or frivolous it may result in some censure or charges being leveled against the accuser, in this case me. Even if your membership is held outside of the ARP they believe they hold some authority to discipline or censure outside of their federation. He did say it sounds like there may be something here worth investigating, but that I should seek outside counsel. As I understand it, Washington state has some very stringent doxxing laws which @DutchPresby’s doxx could fall under the purview of. It doesn’t matter if he deleted his post. The damage has been done and his character revealed.

@mralangentry @DutchPresby @_Wilburr_ @agradio1 If you haven't already, please email this exchange to the stated clerk of his Presbytery, The Mississippi valley Presbytery. Wolves like Aaron need to be thrown out of office

CN responses to our synod in the URCNA this week justify every action we took against Ethnonationalism, and any future actions that we will take. Public attacks against our ministers only serves to validate our actions and bolsters our resolve to excercise the keys of the kingdom against those who hold to these views.

This may be wildly offensive if you’re a boomer, an NPC, educated by Christ’s enemies (and you don’t even know it), or informed your conscience with Steven Spielberg movies. Remember who your fathers are. Honor them as the Lord commands.

Remember, the most important evil to root out of our churches is young white men who dare to notice patterns. The law of God is an intricate part of the true gospel. God is glorified in public displays of capital justice. Grace is cheap when God is robbed of His justice

“There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.” —Proverbs 30.15-16

Again, publicly and discreetly exposing things a congregant has experienced in a church is what’s appalling to @agradio1. Not that these things happened. Not that Classis Central said “there is nothing in the written record indicating unfitness for the ministry.” It’s the mere statement of it. This isn’t my first Dutch rodeo. I’m well aware that every abomination under the sun can quickly be swept up. What’s most important is that nobody finds out.

@jared_555 @mralangentry Where did I threaten that “for him?” But these kinds of statements are appalling, and would deserve, I think, a consistory’s admonishment. This is one of many.

@ScottC1517 That’s good to hear. I hope it’s the case.

@mralangentry I am in the classroom and I see it respectfully.

They train great ones

I am trying to bring awareness to the fact that the URC ordained a guy to the gospel ministry knowing he had a problem with porn and then proceeded to allow him to continue preaching and administering the holy sacraments for about a year and a half before giving him a 90-day suspension, a six-figure severance package and an Article 11 “no fault divorce” before trying to set him up in a rural vacant pulpit.

@mralangentry @ScottC1517 So basically, this guy just sits online all day trashing the URC

@ScottC1517 So I’ve heard. I struggle to buy into the “We train pastors” branding though.

@mralangentry They have expelled folks for that during my time at the seminary.

@ScottC1517 @ZGroff may know about this too. He went back and liked a post I had made about it some time back. He may have worked at the seminary when this guy was there and he is Dr J’s pastor.

@ScottC1517 They gave my URC pastor a diploma while he denied a literal six day creation. Apparently they never asked him about porn either. After it was exposed and blew apart our church they changed the application to include a question about porn. Pipa and Masters are well aware of this.

@rexsubdeo Apparently, porn and ma$sterbation just isn’t that bad. The real danger and threat to the church today is white men, especially ones who will tell others about and expose what they have done or said.

"Elders in my URC Classis not only said, but the majority agreed, 'If we deposed every pastor in our federation who watched porn we’d have no one left to preach to us!'" LORD, show mercy to your church and preserve our faithful from these wolves!

@RevDrBLee @John_Barach I guess Consistatorial or Synodical tyranny doesn’t matter as long as you’re the one wielding the power.

I spoke with Stated Clerk Doug Barnes when he was in Calgary and ran my thoughts by him regarding an appeal. His opinion was that the grounds and merits are valid, the claim of injury is real, and the CO speaks very clearly to this issue. Many presbyter’s spoke plainly to the issue as it relates to procedure as well. If only you had listened to your brothers instead of the jacobin radicals demanding unity with NAPARC at the expense of fidelity to our CO and Scripture.

I’m going to appeal the URCNA’s adoption of the retarded ARP statement because it is not consonant with the plain teaching of Scripture and it was adopted to show harmony within NAPARC churches, not harmony with Scripture.