Renewal Café is a new Zoom community offered by The Renewal Fellowship within The Presbyterian Church in Canada. It’s catered to believers who identify as evangelical, traditional, orthodox or conservative. On the menu: conversation with a serving of prayer. The flavour will vary, according to the occasion and need. Our first seating is Dec. 8 ... Read more
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An Ideological Barrier
Recently, PCC denominational staff announced a workshop entitled “Rainbow Pathways: exploring LGBTQi2 welcome and inclusion.” It will be led by two individuals: a pastor and social worker who identify as a “Queer Trans Masculine person of faith” and a “femme lesbian.” Here’s an opportunity to hear first-hand how others think, I thought ... Read more
Victory On The “Losing” Side
As we wait for the next General Assembly, many of us in PCC orthodoxy are praying, listening, discussing, discerning, and planning. It appears that a future General Assembly will approve the proposed parallel definitions of marriage in which “faithful, Holy Spirit-filled, Christ-centred, God-honouring people can understand marriage as a covenant relationship between a man and ... Read more
Renewal News – Fall 2020
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articles:
In This Issue:
- Where Are All the Disciples? – Rev. Andy Cornell, Renewal Fellowship Executive Director
- A Question of Identity – Jillian McWhinnie, Renewal Fellowship Board Member
- "Rediscover" the New Wineskins – Diane Eaton, Renewal Fellowship Board Member
- Kneeling in Prayer, Standing for Recovery – Rev. James Statham, response to Diane Eaton
- Love is the AnswerRev. Ian Shaw, Renewal Fellowship Board Chairperson
- Renewal Fellowship: Behind the Scenes – Rev. Andy Cornell
- Profile: Cheyne Presbyterian Church – Bill Harrison and Kristy Hamilton, members of Cheyne Session
- Unmasking the Essential Issue – Rev. Andy Cornell
- A Financial Update – Rev. Stan Cox, Renewal Fellowship Treasurer
Where Are All the Disciples?
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched a lot of church people in a lot of ways. It continues to poke and prod and forces us to examine and re-examine who we are and how we do church. Even why. In all the busyness of doing church and worship differently since March, I’ve become a tech ... Read more
A Question of Identity
Who is Jesus? Who am I? Who is the church of Jesus Christ? None of these questions are straightforward to answer; indeed, many spend their entire lives pondering them. It is not by accident either that I write these questions side-by-side. It seems to me that, from the standpoint of a Christian worldview, these questions ... Read more
“Rediscover” the New Wineskins
The headline We Need to Create New Wineskins (Renewal News, summer 2020, p. 2) caught my attention. It seems theologically inaccurate, for Christ Himself created the New Wineskin. The best we can do is design new versions of the old wineskin. But that can’t hold the “wine” Christ offers to cure the root heart malady. ... Read more
Kneeling in Prayer, Standing for Recovery
Response to Diane Eaton's comment: In *We Need to Create New Wineskins*, I had written about PCC clergy being able to recover Biblical marriage within the context of a new “wineskin.” Creating a new wineskin is not foreign to the PCC. It was done in 1875 and in 1925 when there was a resetting of ... Read more
Love is the Answer
Once, after a night of debauchery in my early thirties (at that time in my life debauchery meant staying up to the wee hours playing ‘Hearts’ - the card game, not the relationship pastime), I woke hearing the strains of *Slow Train Coming*. Our host had it hot off the press (it was a LP ... Read more