The CREC Commission report on Saint Peter Presbyterian Church is out. Typical of the jumbletalk of Doug Wilson the conclusions of the report will leave sane people saying to themselves, "Huh?"
Many of RC Sproul Jr fans had predicted that the CREC Commission would "clear the names of the four St. Peter Elders for the whole Reformed world to see". Well, the CREC's report doesn't do that. In fact their report says:
Now this doesn't mean that the "significant pastoral mistakes, errors and sins" were "significant" enough to prevent them from rolling out the CREC red carpet. No! Just about any defrocked Presbyterian minister with a pulse and some brainwaves is welcome in the one "Reformed confederation" with virtually no standards at all.
Doug Wilson has trained well his hand-picked Commission members for their difficult task, to make a Presbyterian minister who was defrocked for ecclesiastical tyranny and tax fraud look as though it really wasn't all that bad. But since the evidence against him was incontrovertible, the best way of dealing with it is to just not deal with it at all. Just ignore the evidence and hope that no one notices. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. The great and powerful Wizard Of Moscow has spoken."
In language that only a Wilsonista could concoct:
So RC Sproul Jr is defrocked, but in the CREC he's "considered ordained"! People in their right minds will have a real difficult time sorting this one out. But in the alternate universe of Doug Wilson's CREC it somehow all makes sense. And even if it doesn't make sense it doesn't really need to. After all, it's just the CREC.
Many of RC Sproul Jr fans had predicted that the CREC Commission would "clear the names of the four St. Peter Elders for the whole Reformed world to see". Well, the CREC's report doesn't do that. In fact their report says:
"It is our finding that there were significant pastoral mistakes, errors and sins by the former Session."
Now this doesn't mean that the "significant pastoral mistakes, errors and sins" were "significant" enough to prevent them from rolling out the CREC red carpet. No! Just about any defrocked Presbyterian minister with a pulse and some brainwaves is welcome in the one "Reformed confederation" with virtually no standards at all.
Doug Wilson has trained well his hand-picked Commission members for their difficult task, to make a Presbyterian minister who was defrocked for ecclesiastical tyranny and tax fraud look as though it really wasn't all that bad. But since the evidence against him was incontrovertible, the best way of dealing with it is to just not deal with it at all. Just ignore the evidence and hope that no one notices. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. The great and powerful Wizard Of Moscow has spoken."
In language that only a Wilsonista could concoct:
"Although Mr. Sproul was deposed from the ministry (primarily for violations of the RPCGA BCO which would not apply in the CREC), we have determined that since he had been previously examined for ordination (by three different presbyteries of three denominations ARPC, PCA, and RPCGA), he shall not be required to fulfill the process for ordination and shall be considered ordained within the CREC accordingly."
So RC Sproul Jr is defrocked, but in the CREC he's "considered ordained"! People in their right minds will have a real difficult time sorting this one out. But in the alternate universe of Doug Wilson's CREC it somehow all makes sense. And even if it doesn't make sense it doesn't really need to. After all, it's just the CREC.
This post first appeared on Spinderella Sproul: Lessons In Spin With Spinmeist, please read the originial post: here
