U.S. Evangelicalism as a Controversy Generator Machine
A teaching elder in the presbytery is charged with engaging in sexual sin that disqualifies him from ministry. In this case, the presbytery formed a committee to review the case, determined that the accused was guilty almost immediately, and promptly “defrocked” him, which meant revoking his credentials (de-frocking, as in the removal of a frock, which is a traditional form of clerical garb) and firing him from his job with the church. Both of these cases were exceedingly unpleasant affairs and quite painful, particularly the second. …And that brings me to the Alistair Begg unpleasantness of the past several weeks. It seems to me that the entire affair, beginning to end, is one protracted indictment of American evangelicalism.
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