CRPC Statement on Knox, Gage
Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church has published its statement concerning the recent suspension of Dr. Warren Gage, Associate Professor at Knox Theological Seminary.
October 19, 2007
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The Knox Board was wrong in the manner that they ‘persecuted’ Dr. Gage.
The Knox Board was also wrong in their lack of pastoral concern for the Knox students and CRPC church.
The Session was wrong in not demanding apologies and repentance from the 6 resigned Board members.
RC Sproul was quite wrong in light of the session’s conclusion!
Is RC humble enough to admit is faulty judgements and unbrotherly attitude in all this?!
…or will he keep chipping away to vindicate himself, and remain Pope of the Reformed Community?
My prayer is that he will repent and retreat, and not cause further division by taking this to the next level.
May God have mercy, …even on those who held the garments of them who stoned Dr. Gage!
Comment by dannydivito — October 24, 2007 @ 11:51 am
Danny,
You have made a number of pretty unqualified statements here, and you have not backed them up with any reasoning, or even facts.
It may be that you are perfectly right in your conclusions, but it would be wise not to state your conclusions without their premises.
Do you have all the firsthand information regarding the Gage/Knox situation?
Were you a student or colleague of Warren Gage, that you heard the majority of his teaching and interacted with him? And even if you were his student, and even if you were his student in every one of his classes, do you have the prior theological expertise to judge for yourself that the Board was wrong in judging his teaching doctrinally unsound?
Have you had personal contact with RC Sproul, or do you even know his reason for concurring with the rest of the Knox Board and the majority of the Knox Faculty in their judgment concerning Gage’s teaching?
Are you aware that the communications from the CRPC session to the resigned members of the Knox Board was first to decline their resignations and offer them five days to come back on the board, and at least a week later they gave them terms on which they could come back (ex post facto rules) which would bind them never to pursue any action, ecclesastical or legal, against Warren Gage, even were Gage to begin teaching universally recognized heresy?
Are you aware that the session, in overturning the Board’s decision, acted contrary to the Book of Church Order of the PCA which gives a session no authority to overrule the judgments of a commission, which is what the Knox Board is; and in doing so, the session acted as though the Board were only a committee. Are you aware that the session also has no right to pronounce any teaching elder orthodox in his doctrine, but that the Presbytery is given that authority? Are you aware that the Knox Board, not the CRPC session, is responsible for decisions affecting the Seminary, and that CRPC had no reason for interfering with their decisions, since the seminary’s bylaws leave entirely to the Board the hiring and firing of all faculty?
Are you aware of the things that have taken place behind the scenes, even to this day, two and a half months after you wrote your comment on this blog?
The manner of your comment leads me to believe that you are more of a die-hard fan of Dr. Gage than a Christian who both makes it “your ambition to lead a quiet and godly life,” and “test all things and hold fast that which is good.”
I would urge you not to make such intense, unqualified, and unreasoned statements as the above.
A fellow believer who has sat under a great deal of Dr. Gage’s teaching and benefitted hugely with it, but agreed with heavy heart with the decisions of the Knox Board on September 11, and is watching the seminary and the hearts of many dear Christians be torn apart by illegitimate and underhanded actions and mass-deception, and in the name of our One Lord Jesus Christ who is in charge of it all and will see his name glorified in the end,
k
Comment by k — January 4, 2008 @ 10:23 pm