I am not sure if this is going in the correct direction, and I am quite aware that sometimes we get the leadership we deserve. There are some who would say that an apostate leadership is a sign of God’s judgment upon us, and they may be right.

That is not the issue. The issue is that the casualness we have around such issues damages people’s souls. We all need to prey for people who are in the hell this man finds himself within. The Francis he mentions is the Pope…

Francis has deliberately and calleously insulted the faithfulness of all abandoned spouses. It is WE who are disaffected. It is our spouses who are sleeping around. WE are the ones who the Catholic Church has abandoned. Only an idiot or an evil man condones what happens to us and he has not mentioned, not once that I have heard, the need for our spouses to do justice and to restore what they have destroyed. No he comforts people actively engaged and completely unrepentant, as they filet, alive, their spouses.

Francis, if he was raised properly or if he was truly a man, would have, long ago, seen the harm he has been about, for what appears to be most of his priesthood. But he does not seem to care.

He presumes, to his and my peril, evidently, that my soul is securely in Gods hands. He could not be more mistaken!

No, he must be an idiot, not evil.

But it is not just the Pope. The Liberal Presbyterians hold onto their land jealously. I don’t care. My local congregation sold its landmark church, and the congregeation I belong to deliberately meets in a local hall.

Losing our property was the best part of our separation from the PC(USA). Those whose love was our perfect New England white clapboard church-house listed on the National Register of Historic Places with its copper steeple and working bell in the belfry stayed with the building while those who loved Christ and His Bride departed.

If we claim to agree with Jesus that we can’t serve both God and mammon, but then refuse to see that choice in any particular decision of our lives, we don’t really agree with Jesus, do we?

Well, yes. A quick aside. There is a liberal wing to the Presbyterian Church in NZ (who added Aotearoa to the name in an erroneous move towards biculturalism, when the church should be one). I put up with a fair amount of nonsense. But… the church is standing firm on leadership: married or single and celibate. No living in sin, regardless of orientation, and no acceptance of Gay marriage. The liberals have raised these issues but the lay people reject it. And (praise God) the local courts keep away. if the church falls into that error — well I will stay reformed: the church has left the faith and I have a working relationship with a local reformed congregation. I would prefer that we are one, but I would leave them and their buildings and worship in a tent — or a bowling club, which is where Grace Presbyterian worships. But we must never let the courts decide for us what we can and cannot do.

Despite the fact that homosexuals only make up 1.7% of the population, their personal desires are put before the desires of everyone else. Tell me again, friends, how liberalism is anti-authoritarian and how democracy prevents tyranny? Tyrannical liberal authoritarianism was quite clearly exercised over the will of the people of Michigan yesterday, when U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman ruled that our constitutional amendment banning homosexual “marriage” is suddenly unconstitutional. Today, hundreds of homosexual couples received marriage licenses, until late this afternoon when the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a temporary stay effective until Wednesday, March 26.

[One of the reasons I dislike constitutions is that it gives lawyers and judges power they are unfit to handle. NZ has gay marriage -- but this required that Parliament changed the family law, and those Parliamentarians who voted on this are accountable. .The state constitution of Michigan has, on this issue, been made null because one man decided he did not like it and framed that in some vague form of rights. In a similar manner, abortion (to our shame) is legal in NZ on the signatures of two medics and after counselling and before 20 weeks if the health of the woman is at risk (and the abortion doctors use psychological distress as a means of making this available) but, again, this was past by parliament and that parliament remains accountable. Not seven morons in a building in Washington, D.C, or a smaller number of twits in the EU or UN.]

Within the church, however, we are not a democracy, where the number of votes matter, nor run by lawyers and judges. We are ruled by Christ, and he encompasses truth: as the laws of nature are immune to judicial disapproval, so Christ will hold his church together.

So to those struggling with holding the faith in difficult circumstances. we need to pray. We need to support. And we need to stop pretending that their duty to care and to love and to be faithful does not exist. For Christ will rule his church, and the liberals will find themselves spiritually dead, in dying congregations, maintaining beautiful buildings for the tourists. But Christ can work in a field, a shed, a tent… even, perhaps, a cathedral.