The Tulip Driven Life

  IN DEFENCE OF DE-CENTRALIZED & LOCAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH GOVERNMENT: Michael Foster rightly points out below that if you've been in the PCA, you've recognized all these tactics (highlighted in the image at the bottom of this post) by the progressives before. Not just the progressive really, most everyone. Conservatives do it because they often confuse "bureaucratic bloat" with "do everything decently and in order" (I Cor. 14:40) I suppose. Progressives do it for all the reasons Foster highlights below -- basically to foist their agenda on everyone even when it doesn't have majority support. Until I came into the small Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church denomination, I'd never been to a presbytery meeting I liked. All that is in the image below was on display, and it also had the effect of making things seem very artificial. At one presbytery meeting of another small denomination I was considering years back, the whole denomination dissol

 By: Thomas F. Booher  Let me begin by saying I have much appreciation for Ligonier Ministries. While I don't read Table Talk regularly anymore, it's also still a valuable resource, and when I'm Googling something online to help me with doctrinal or pastoral matters, Ligonier is often the link I click, and sometimes it even takes me to a free article from Table Talk. Having said that, I am concerned about Ligonier undermining the Christian family/household and even unintentionally laying the groundwork for women to be ordained as pastors and teachers in churches, an office that God has ordained only for men (see I Tim. 3:1-7).  To illustrate, Ligonier Ministries has Karrie Hahn writing an article in TableTalk in the December 2021 issue. They list the contributors for this issue, and I believe she's the only one who is female. (Contributors include James A. Brown Jr., Robert Rothwell, Kevin D. Gardner, Sinclair B. Ferguson, Jonty Rhodes, Dan Forrest, Todd Alexander, Geof