HEADACHE AND THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA)

NOT HUNG-OVER
This morning, I woke with a splitting headache-- let me say ahead that it wasn't a hang-over! The strongest drink I had last night after Bible study was pineapple juice at McDonald's!

Immediately after praying, I checked wikipedia and given the symptoms, I have reason to believe that it was migraine- one-sided, pulsating headache! Since it was early, I opted to wait it out by going back to bed. After an hour, the pain was still there. I slept some more. Around 12NN, I contacted a ministry assistant to inform the office that I was having a horrible headache that rendered me incapable of even walking to the nearest drugstore to get pain pills, and I had to take oatmeal with fresh milk and bananas for lunch. It was that bad.

At around 3, I managed to write and compose a worship planner for our midweek service, and emailed it right away. I went back to bed and slept the pain away, occasionally waking and whispering a prayer. When I finally woke up around 6, the pain has substantially subsided and I was able to walk to the nearest mall for dinner and get medicines.

I feel so much better now. Thank God. Too bad though I missed the midweek service.

THE LATEST AT THE PRESBYTERIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Although I am not surprised, I feel that the PC(USA) is going towards the direction many of the conservatives speak of being on the road to perdition.
Many evangelical-orthodox churches and ministers are hoping for a change in the heart and soul of the PC(USA) that is why a large majority of such churches and ministers stay within the denomination to make a difference. But so far, there has not been any change other than what is expected- the PC(USA) is becoming less and less evangelical-orthodox-Reformed-Biblical in its understanding and character.

By a vote of 41-11 Tuesday evening, the Assembly Committee on Church Orders and Ministry recommended to the 218th General Assembly that it send an amendment to the presbyteries to delete G-6.0106b — which requires “fidelity within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness” for church officers — from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Book of Order.

This simply means that what the Bible calls sinful in the form of adultery, fornication and sexual perversion are no longer sinful within the ranks of the PC(USA).

A number of committee members, knowing the inevitable vote was coming, didn’t return to the committee’s meeting room after the dinner break. The Rev. Emily McColl, who was on the losing side of the vote, asked committee members to call those who didn’t return for the evening, saying she was “so saddened by their absence that my heart can hardly stand it.”
Committee member David Reimer predicted the fallout would be heavy. “I have a fear that the ramifications will be severe,” he said. “Churches won’t wait for the ratification votes [by the presbyteries] but will leave immediately, though I hope they won’t.”

McColl agreed with Reimer, saying “many churches will no longer consider us Reformed in their understanding of biblical interpretation and theology.”