Welcome to the conversation, the StiMatter Podcast. My name is John Harris. We're

going to talk today about the Presbyterian Church in America, the PCA. We don't

often talk about the PCA because it's smaller than the

SBC and because I'm more familiar with the SBC but it is important to talk about

the PCA. They have some of the same battles going on in the PCA that are going

on in the Southern Baptist Convention.

And they might look a little different, especially because of the polity of the SPC

and it is different than the polity of the PCA.

PCA has overtures that are actually binding on local congregations, whereas the resolutions

in the SBC don't bind local autonomous churches.

So different beliefs on church government, but that means that overtures in the PCA are more important.

And so keeping our eye on the overtures that are either rejected or accepted is one way to see the trajectory of the PCA.

And it's not the only way. We can look at other things. We can look at what's being said on social media,

what's being said on social media, what's being sent in emails, and what

what pastors, prominent pastors are saying and that kind of thing, but the PCA

it's a little more rigid because local autonomous churches in the

SBC can they have a lot of leeway to kind of do what they want but and the PCA that's

not the case you can be brought up on charges of being against the

state of beliefs of the PCA and that can get you kicked out and you can be tried for heresy and all that kind of thing.

So much more tight in the way that things operate.

Now I wanted to start, we're going to launch off of this, if I can here.

This is an article by Tim Keller in the By Faith,

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