Please be praying for the PCA. This afternoon they will be considering the Federal Vision issue. Or, more accurately, they will be considering what some people deem to be the Federal Vision issue. Unfortunately, depending on the outcome, there are accurate names connected to inaccurate summaries of doctrine, and so this really is a crossroads for the PCA.
There are enough genuine doctrinal issues involved in this controversy that it could have been a doctrinal choice. But because the choice has come to this point in the way it has, the choice is actually between nativism and catholicity.
There are (at least) two ways to get rid of heretics from a denomination. One is to study the issues, grasp them, determine if your opponents are actually teaching them, and then make the decision. The other is generate some slogans, doggedly persevere with those slogans (“that’s my story, and I’m stickin’ to it”), pull some levers, stack some committees, and then ban anyone who has read a book by N.T. Wright without glowering the entire time.
There may not be fireworks this afternoon, but this is a really big deal. Pray that God would protect the PCA from nativism.