{"id":1041,"date":"2007-01-16T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2016-04-25T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T17:48:19","slug":"watching-and-waiting-coming-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Watching and waiting &#8211; Coming attractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings,<\/p>\n<p>No, I have not fallen off the face of the earth.&nbsp; But over the holidays it has been fairly slow with the hard news in the little niche I&#8217;m interested in so I have just taken the advice of Mark 13:37 &#8211; &#8220;What I say to you, I say to everyone: &#8216;Watch!&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>What are we waiting and watching for?&nbsp; There are at least four big events on the horizon.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report of the examination of the Rev. Steve Wilkins by the <a href=\"http:\/\/louisianapresbytery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana Presbytery<\/a> regarding his theological beliefs on covenant theology commonly refereed to as &#8220;Federal Vision Theology.&#8221;&nbsp; I have <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=1043\">previously discussed the examination and response<\/a> and the report is expected at the January 20 presbytery meeting.<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newwineconvo.com\/\">New Wineskins Conference<\/a> February 8-9, 2007 in Orlando, Florida.&nbsp; This got more interesting when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Evangelical Presbyterian Church<\/a> leadership <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epc.org\/general-assembly\/EPNews2006\/JJJ%20Messages\/JJJMessageHistoricOpportunity.html\" target=\"_blank\">disclosed<\/a> that they had been in conversation with New Wineskins leaders.<\/li>\n<li>The PC(USA) Middle Governing Body <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/mgbconnect\/communion.htm\" target=\"_blank\">conversation on the future of middle governing bodies<\/a> February 14-16 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.&nbsp; It is not clear what will come of this but the New Mexican presbyteries and synod have felt particular pressure over their viability.<\/li>\n<li>The PC(USA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/formofgovernment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Form of Government Task Force<\/a> will meet February 22-24. The Task Force met last week but word is that the next drafts will be released after the February meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There has been a bit of recent news:&nbsp; The PC(USA) Presbyterian Health, Education and Welfare Association met this past weekend in New Orleans for the 2007 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/phewa\/social-justice-biennial-conference.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Social Justice Biennial Conference<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp; I found it interesting how much discussion there seemed to be at a social sustice meeting about the future of the denomination.&nbsp; The PC(USA) news service has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2007\/07031.htm\" target=\"_blank\">article written at the beginning of the conference<\/a> about the conference and comments by Bill Quigley, director of the law clinic and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University of New Orleans.&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layman.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Layman Online<\/a> covered the meeting and they have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layman.org\/layman\/news\/2007-news\/_index-news-2007.htm\" target=\"_blank\">posted several articles about the conference<\/a> on their news page.&nbsp; The coverage of conference speakers includes the comments by PC(USA) Stated Clerk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layman.org\/layman\/news\/2007-news\/kirkpatrick-urges-movement-for-justice.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Clifton Kirkpatrick<\/a>, comments about the PC(USA) having to face reality by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layman.org\/layman\/news\/2007-news\/like-new-orleans-now.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. Curtis A. Kearns, Jr.<\/a>, General Assembly Council Executive Administrator, and two articles about comments by the Rev. Robert Linthicum, a para-church consultant, one on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layman.org\/layman\/news\/2007-news\/linthicum-even-dying-churches.htm\" target=\"_blank\">transformation<\/a> and the other on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layman.org\/layman\/news\/2007-news\/speaker-pcusa-not-organized.htm\" target=\"_blank\">church mission structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, No, I have not fallen off the face of the earth.&nbsp; But over the holidays it has been fairly slow with the hard news in the little niche I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-pcusa"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Watching and waiting - Coming attractions - The GA Junkie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=1041\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watching and waiting - Coming attractions - The GA Junkie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Greetings, No, I have not fallen off the face of the earth.&nbsp; 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