Offering an unapologetically evangelical sermon during the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly’s Friday morning worship service, Dr. Jerry Andrews, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of San Diego, called for reconciliation. But it wasn’t the typical efforts to reconcile factions within the fractious denomination that Andrews spoke to. It was our basic need to be reconciled…
The following article was originally posted as “Culture-accommodating PCUSA fails to fulfill ‘great ends of Church’” in 2000. Much has changed in the intervening 16 years as the Presbyterian Church (USA) has continued to pursue an abhorrent agenda and suffers the consequences. Over those 16 years, a million members have left, many with their congregations…
By Jerry Andrews, The Presbyterian Outlook. We meet separately now. I did not want this. I had worked and prayed that it would not be so. I had valued the shared evangelical witness within the PCUSA. I thought it held promise — the promise that an evangelical witness gladly offered to and received by the…
By Jerry L. Van Marter PRINCETON, N.J. – Because the meaning of biblical metaphors for the church are not always commonly shared, conversations about ecclesiology ― the doctrine of the nature and purpose of the church ― might be better served by relying on “foundational” statements, the Rev. Jerry Andrews told the second Moderator’s Colloquium…