We watched and listened with great interest for your corporate response to such statements made at an officially sponsored event of our denomination. These represented not a matter of differences of opinions about debatable matters in the life of our Church, but rather struck at the heart of the Gospel and the truth which is indispensable to our common faith and life. We hold your response to be weak and inadequate. Nothing is more important than bearing witness to what God has done in sending forth His Son to be the Savior of the world and the person through whom God the Father has reconciled all things in heaven and earth to Himself. We have no life apart from Jesus, and the General Assembly Council has no purpose for existence apart from the proclamation and preservation of this affirmation.
Nothing is more important.
In light of this, the PFR Board voted to express its concern for your response to this issue. We feel that you failed to provide the leadership entrusted to you. You have undermined the clear mandate of Christ to make disciples of all peoples. You have failed to assure the Church of the Council's commitment to the confessional standards of our denomination regarding Christology and soteriology. You have failed to make it clear that the widely quoted statements of Rev. Ficca are outside the bounds of our Reformed and Presbyterian tradition.