Our ability to adjust to rapid change is challenged because we've been given little time to evolve the necessary capacity to adapt to world events that are different from one year to the next. We are faced with increasingly complex systems that are difficult to understand and manage. Moral and ethical solutions are required for situations and developments humans have not encountered in the past. We are given ways for tapping into that which sustains us, illuminates our understanding, and assures us of God's continuous love and care. To find our guides it is sometimes tempting to establish boundaries of belief, to find answers in a Bible that shelters us from all the confusion that surrounds us.
Ambiguity is difficult.
The Confessing Church movement That may be why some congregations are joining a Confessing Church Movement described in a special report from the Presbyterian Layman . Judging from what has been written about it, some sessions in the denomination are so upset by differences in Biblical and confessional interpretation that it has become necessary for them to define precisely what all should believe. The insistence that every Presbyterian accept this definition of the basic tenets of our faith is a problem. God is so immense that it takes all the human family even to begin comprehending the nature and intent of God. Jesus enlightens us about the nature and will of God, but we each understand that in different ways.