Over the past couple of years, I’ve gotten to know Reggie Kidd, and I’ve come to appreciate him as a faithful man of God, who is open and honest with what he believes. Over the past few semesters, I’ve had a few discussions with him concerning the Federal Vision and the New Perspective on Paul, and when I told him that the PCA had adopted the MS Valley Report (we were at a class session when the vote came in), I could see the look of frustration on his face.
I asked him why he never wrote anything on the subject that might have swayed pastors to vote the other way, and the answer was that he just didn’t have the time. It looks like he found the time recently, and his thoughts are right on the money:
As the Scoutmaster once said to his troop of Boy Scouts who couldn’t do anything but bicker: “Boys, it’s time to start whizzing out of the campsite instead of into it.” (Apologies to my friend Wes Sumrall for the euphemism.)
Is it possible that Sparta and Athens understood better what was at stake in their time than we do in ours? Can we stop devouring our own? Can we make common cause against common enemies instead of against one another?
We’re better than this. We’re wiser than this. And the gospel deserves better than this, because more is at stake than when the beneficiaries of the sacrifice of King Leonidas and “his brave three hundred” took stock of the price that had been paid for them.
