Joshua Torrey returns with special guest Jason Piland to discuss the latest developments within the PCA related to mandatory background checks. Joshua and Jason co-labored to perfect overtures that will be considered by the General Assembly in 2024 requiring background checks of ordained officers. We discuss the grassroots presbyterian nature of these overtures versus a more top-down approach that will also be considered. We also discuss for the need for churches to carry out church discipline.

Mentioned

• Redeemer Presbyterian Church (PCA), Austin, TX
• Redeemer Church (PCA), Hudson, OH
• Episode 2: I’m not saying Tex-Mex is bad with Joshua Torrey
• Scott Edburg AKA Mr. Spreadsheet
• 2023 BCO Amendments Tracker
• Regeneration and Redemptive History: A Biblical-Theological Consideration of Regeneration by Scott R. Wright
• PCA’s Book of Church Order (BCO)
• The original Overture 6 to the 2023 General Assembly “To Require Criminal Background Checks of all Minister and Officer Candidates”
• Overtures to the 2024 General Assembly
• Overture 6, Susquehanna Valley Presbytery to the 2024 General Assembly
• The Westminster Standard podcast: RE Joshua Torrey talks Background Checks
• New Background Check Overture as passed by South Texas Presbytery
• South Texas Presbytery, PCA
• The Ohio Presbytery (TOP), PCA
• PCA Report of the Ad Interim Committee on Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault AKA the DASA Report
• Polity Matters podcast
• @JoshuaTorrey on Twitter / X
• @JasonPiland on Twitter / X

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