David Hall | Irony and the PCA
In this episode, we sit down with David Hall, Senior Pastor of Midway Presbyterian Church in Powder Springs, GA, and a prolific author, to discuss his latest book, Irony and the Presbyterian Church in America: The First Fifty Years. Hall’s work, a historical and analytical exploration of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), offers a unique perspective on the denomination’s fifty-year journey since its inception in 1973. Through the lens of irony, reminiscent of Greek dramas, Hall examines the PCA’s evolution within the wider context of American Presbyterianism.
David Hall is the author of more than 40 books, including influential titles like Savior or Servant? Putting Government in Its Place and The Legacy of John Calvin. As the Founder and Senior Fellow of the Kuyper Institute and a leading figure in the Calvin500 celebration, Hall’s expertise offers a profound look into the PCA’s successes, challenges, and the critical question: can it avoid the decline that other religious communions have faced?
0:00:07 Introduction
0:02:10 The Reformation Worship Conference
0:15:10 A History of the PCA at 50
0:19:54 This Book among Other Histories of the PCA
0:23:33 Irony as a Theme for the PCA
0:36:34 Looking Backward and Forward
0:40:06 Perspective for the Future of the PCA
0:47:57 Joining and Receiving: The RPCES and OPC
1:00:58 Conclusion
This is Christ the Center episode 843 (www.reformedforum.org/ctc843).
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Will the conference referenced at the start of this presentation be broadcast or be posted to KZread or Rumble or ... ?
@PaDutchRunner
4 ай бұрын
KZread
I greatly enjoy and am edified by this podcast. Camden - not sure how to reach you privately, so please forgive me for saying this publicly. As professional and well-voiced as you are, I recommend not being so "excited" about things. Maybe find a better and more mature word.
“Carl’s a beautiful man. Let’s be dishonest.” 😂😂😂
Left the PCA after 20 years. Worldliness is creeping in. Elders treat the church strictly like a business. Many do not meet biblical requirements for office. Most are corporate bigshots. Increasingly open to new ways for women to have increasing authority. Counsel divorce for "emotional abandonment". Quotas for certain number of women, young people and minorities for pastoral search committees. No doctrinal test to be on the committee or thought for whether committee members meet the qualifications for elders. Many seem to treat theology as a hobby they talk about only in men's groups. Between services they generate talk about their finances or other temporal matters. I left because being in 5 PCA churches I see a lot of concern for this world and its comforts and virtually no concern for God or His church. Only speaking from my experience.
@rprestarri
2 ай бұрын
Same
'Irony' may not be the best way to entitle this discourse. There may be a better option.
What truly disgusts me is how a great many wave the word "Gospel" around like some meaningless rallying flag, completely ignoring and obscuring the true meaning of the Gospel: The powerful life and works of Christ Jesus and His wonderful salvific victory. So, "no," immigration, pronoun hospitality, supporting the welfare state, and so on are "NOT" "Gospel issues." Salvation of Lost is the ONLY Gospel issue!
A conference to promote: Only an arbitrary pre-chosen elect will irresistibly turn to Christ?
@jackuber7358
4 ай бұрын
Shame on you for accusing God of being arbitrary. While God is absolutely sovereign over the entirety of His creation, God IS good and does NO evil and so thus I trust, and so should you, that those whom He foreknew before the beginning of all things and determined to be His exclusively of all others is in complete synchronization will His goodness and in accordance with His glory. Yours and my notions of fairness are utterly tainted by our sin and thus can play no part in judging anything God says or does.
@mikelyons2831
4 ай бұрын
@@jackuber7358 I don't call Him arbitrary... Calvinism does. Calvin, Johnathan Edwards & many modern day Calvinists call God's chosing Arbitrary. It's Unconditional Election remember? Without meeting any condition or criteria. They think Romans mid-9 teaches that. They will say "before the twins did anything good or evil". I don't believe or teach that. I teach any, all, everyone CAN call upon Jesus for salvation per: John 1:7, 1:9, 3:15-18, 5:24, 6:40, 20:30-31, Luke 9:56, Acts 17:26-31, Romans 5:18, 10:11-13, 11:32, 12:3, 1 Timothy 2:4-6, Titus 2:11, Hebrews 2:9, 1 John 2:2, 4:14, Revelation 22:17, Isaiah 1:18-20, Matthew 11:28. I don't teach (in cult-like manner) that only an exclusive special favored elite elect will be irresistibly regenerated & all others are vessels made for destruction.
@mikelyons2831
4 ай бұрын
@@jackuber7358I didn't accuse God of being arbitrary... Calvinism does. It's Unconditional Election remember. Without meeting any condition or criteria. They get that from eisegeting Romans mid-9 (before the twins did anything good or bad)
@johnpachol7734
2 ай бұрын
Arbitrary? Was God's choice of Paul arbitrary? Did God choose this murderer, this persecutor of the church, resurrect his very soul from the dead, wash him clean, and did so arbitrarily? . . .having set him aside for His purposes since the foundation of the world, His purposes not only for Paul and his lifetime but throughout eternity in the lifetime of all those who hear Him through Paul's Spirit-inspired, enscripturated words. Do you undercut the Triune God's sovereignty? Question His authority? Or do you think you are entitled to His gracious act of salvation because of a decision, a "decree," that you may have made? What makes you so sure He has extended His favor and permitted you into His presence? On what basis can you make such an assertion when you question the decrees of the King? You better reconsider you standing before the Judge, Christ Jesus. And withdraw your accusation and humble yourself before the Sovereign, Eternal, only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory forever.
@mikelyons2831
2 ай бұрын
@@johnpachol7734 Few!!! I don't think or call God arbitrary. John Calvin, Johnathan Edwards & many modern day Calvinists call God's chosing Arbitrary. They get this from poor exegesis of Romans mid-9 (before the twins did anything good or bad). Although, God chose Paul...he was not on Calvinism's meticulous determinism of all things. He was still a volitional being. Argued with Peter & told Agrippa "I was not disobedient to the Heavenly vision". Anyway, Calvinism is another gospel.