Reflections

With the Church of Scotland fiasco still fresh in the memory thoughts turn to those who stood for righteousness and truth in that very mixed denomination. I don't know anything about them so can't comment but my mind goes back to those days in the late 1960's when churches began to secede from the Presbyterian Church of Wales. By that time Presbyterianism had become a dirty word among Bible believing Christians and the ensuing exodus - well it was more like a trickle of churches over a period of years - resulted not in a reformed Presbyterian church but a multiplication of independent churches and a solidifying anti-denominational feeling.

I regretted the loss of connectionalism, though was glad to leave behind that shell of a denomination and shed no tears over the eventual demise of the Presbyterian theological college, where I 'trained'. I was just wondering what hope there is of a reformed Church of Scotland emerging from the present mire. Maybe those brethren are as variegated and unconnected as many of us were in the days of yore. I hope not.