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Below is the transcript of the statement the Session of Tenth Presbyterian Church wrote and posted on Vimeo, explaining why they cancelled the congregational meeting they'd called for this past Sunday, January 7, 2024. In this article, I make some comments hoping they will be helpful to those involved in the mess, helping them to see why the session must resign and presbytery must send in a commission to take over the sessional responsibilities for a time.

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Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

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The Session of Tenth Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in America) has betrayed their trust to guard their sheep. For them to present themselves now as "lovers" of their sheep and the adults in the room who can be trusted—making this claim in the wake of (only) their most recent scandal of Goligher's abandonment of his call—is ludicrous and should immediately be shut down by both the congregation and Philadelphia Presbytery (BCO 11-4)...

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Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

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Christian organizations and church officers often take down statements they have, at first, made publicly. Thus during conflict, they control information.

For the permanent record then, this is the transcript of the statement the Session of Tenth Presbyterian Church just posted on Vimeo. Here their spokesman explains why he and his fellow elders cancelled the congregational meeting they had called for yesterday, Sunday, January 7, 2024.

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Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

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Since my shepherd keeps watch over my soul as a man who will give account to the Chief Shepherd, I recommit myself to submit to him, seeking his growth and wellbeing, and thereby our flock's growth and wellbeing. To that end, I make the following resolutions:

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Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

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Since I am called by God to feed and protect His sheep, knowing well my weaknesses, fears, and temptations, I recommit myself to zeal in my pastoral duties. To that end, I make the following resolutions:

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Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

Merry Christmas!

(A modern Christmas story by Joe Bayly, printed in The Gospel Blimp (and other parables.)

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What started it all was a group of students who called themselves "the collective of BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] students and alumni of Wheaton College" demanding the "immediate removal of President James Oliver Buswell’s name from the college’s library." 

As it turned out, full submission to their demand of "immediate removal" took Wheaton's trustees and administration two years and eleven months.

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Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

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GRACE is a crisis management company frequently hired by Christian churches who have attained public notoriety for various forms of abuse of women and men, girls and boys. GRACE is brought in to manage the crisis by investigating the bad actors, then make recommendations for cleaning up the church's public image.

GRACE sells itself as an impartial business that can be trusted to root out abusers of authority. At the center of  their marketing is their claim of objectivity in their research and the reports they write up for their clients.

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Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.

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What is critically important to recognize at this late date is this: the abuse of authority committed by shepherds who refuse to defend such victims from their predators is more evil than the terrible abuse of the predators themselves.

Why?

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Music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions.