Andrew Dionne
Andrew Dionne is the pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He also serves as the president of New Geneva Academy. He has six children and a lovely wife.
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Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (17); one-sided warnings
Missouri Presbytery never stops faulting Revoice’s critics. When one thinks of all the verses they might have quoted warning their own Missouri Presbytery Revoicers, then the absence of such warnings in 143 pages of text, their project is clarified.
This is not to say warnings aren’t needed or heeded by us and Revoice’s other critics.
read more Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (16); it’s all about tone
Missouri Presbytery’s pastors here justify their cowardice by pointing out how gentle, reasonable, and ever-so-humble they are while the shepherds who criticized Revoice are (and we list them in order)…
read more Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (15); No, I didn’t mean you!
Revoice calls good what Scripture and our confessional Westminster Standards call evil. Revoice blesses what God curses. Revoice is intentionally promoting schism within the Church, seeking to draw out disciples from among the people of God. They are men who have arisen among us seeking sheep they may devour, and Missouri Presbytery is happy to oblige. Missouri Presbytery refuses to keep watch over these sheep, cozying up to the wolves instead.
read more Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (14); the Zooville test
Sin blinds us, rendering our thinking irrational and our speech and writing done towards self-justification of that sin nonsensical to those not sharing that sin with us. This is the real reason the flock of God was scandalized by Revoice and now is scandalized by Missouri Presbtytery’s 143-page document justifying Revoice. It’s not that the flock of God lacks charity.
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Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (Glossary of Terms)
How we define our words is important. Not only do definitions clarify meanings, they shape thoughts. “Death and life are in the power of the tongue” (Proverbs 18:21) says the Lord, and often the determining factor in whether those words bring life or death depends upon their appearance or disappearance from our common usage.
read more Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (13); the sin that must not be written
Before moving to the next allegation, let us state for the first time, here, that this Report and the men who wrote it have proven themselves incapable of beginning to understand or provide wise pastoral care for all those claiming any of the LGBTQ identities because of their refusal to acknowledge that the sin of effeminacy—not homoerotic desire—is the sin that binds Revoicers together.
read more Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (12); words unfitly chosen
Take “allegation” for instance: over and over any and all criticisms of Revoice are smeared with this term. But a huge proportion of the concerns expressed by fellow believers and church officers, most of it written, are simple criticisms—the sort that are the bread and butter of presbytery life.
read more Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (11); Missouri Presbytery packages the allegations
It’s not hard to dispense with charges one formulates oneself with no accountability for how one formulates them. This is the reason straw-man arguments are insidious. Men are fooled by them.
read more Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (10)
There’s a reason nothing like Revoice has ever appeared among Biblical churches across two millenia of church history. The Church has always recognized the duties required and sins prohibited by the Seventh Commandment.
read more Missouri Presbytery Revoice Report: a close reading (9); selective memory
This Timeline weaponizes information by hiding negative things while being very specific with information that shows Revoice, Pastor Johnson, and Memorial Presbyterian Church in a better light.
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