Become Dim, he delivered a sermon on the topic at the first PCA General Assembly in 1973. Twenty years later, Smith said, the PCA again needs to hear that message. First, Smith noted a decline in theological standards. If the PCA now adopts New School, 'loose' subscription, it could move to liberalism. Smith was troubled that the 1992 General Assembly sponsored a debate on different options of subscription, suggesting that it was an open matter.
Theological pluralism is a slippery slope.
Smith reported that one presbytery ordained those who rejected definite atonement and infant baptism. One General Assembly did not discipline a congregation which included playground activities as part of its Sunday evening worship services. Second, there is a problem with polity. There have been no secret TR caucuses, he added, and the Concerned Presbyterians meeting was open to the public. Since the biblical remedy for a bad situation was in 2 Chr. 7, Smith requested that significant time at the CP meeting be reserved for prayer.