Carl Trueman, professor at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and a native of England with close ties to the Church of Scotland, offers some incisive commentary on the recent goings-on in the Church of Scotland. The Church of Scotland has appointed its first openly gay minister, Scott Rennie. Trueman, certainly no supporter of this new development, is nevertheless critical of the way evangelicals have responded to the appointment of Rennie.
Trueman says, in part:
Trueman goes on to chide a prominent evangelical church in Scotland for acting like an independent church instead of being true to Presbyterian polity to reform the church through the proper channels or simply leave the denomination if the Church of Scotland is incapable of maintaining orthodox Christian belief.
His conclusion is especially poignant for those of us in the mainline.
You can read the whole thing here.
