"Wide is the gate, and broad is the way"

Conservative Presbyterian (OPC) Darryl Hart meditates on the rift between the theologies of Reinhold Niehbur and Karl Barth, while sadly acknowledging the apparent decision of the Presbyterian Church in the USA to follow the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America out of the Great Tradition and off the path of biblical Christianity by "unsinning" homosexuality.

It's worth reflecting once more on the words of Wolfhart Pannenberg:

If a church were to let itself be pushed to the point where it ceased to treat homosexual activity as a departure from the biblical norm, and recognized homosexual unions as a personal partnership of love equivalent to marriage, such a church would stand no longer on biblical ground but against the unequivocal witness of Scripture. A church that took this step would cease to be the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.

I guess sometimes giving in to the culture is just easier.

HT: Real Clear Religion