As promised, here is the second installment of the TR vs. BR list.
You Might Be a Barely Reformed Pastor If…
1. You changed the name of your church from Knox Memorial Reformed Presbyterian to Grace Community Fellowship.
2. You’ve ever seriously considered going to Pensacola or Toronto to bring back the fire.
3. You think that what the church needs is another revival, not another reformation.
4. You use the phrase semper reformandum when someone objects that your practice isn’t confessional.
5. You think the phrase “no creed but Jesus” has an appealing ring to it.
6. You’ve ever done an infant dedication service.
7. You own more than one book by C. Peter Wagner, David Wilkerson, James Dobson, or Gary Smalley.
8. You don’t own anything by Charles Hodge, Archibald Alexander, or B.B. Warfield.
9. You think it’s a good thing that many of your members don’t know the church is Presbyterian.
10. The words “relevant,” “contemporary,” and “cutting edge” cause you to salivate excessively.
11. You don’t trust anyone who doesn’t have exceptions to the Westminster Confession.
12. You consider it to be in bad taste to ask theological questions of a candidate on the floor of Presbytery.
13. You’ve ever cut a service short because it was Superbowl Sunday.
14. You constantly use the word “just” while praying, as in “we just want to really thank you.”
15. You switched to overheads so people would have their hands free to “just really worship God.”
16. You have no idea what the regulative principle is, but strongly suspect it is another form of legalism.
17. You believe an endorsement from J.I. Packer on the back of a book.
18. You believe that the greatest work on apologetics ever written was More than a Carpenter.
19. Any discussion of Reformed theology you are involved in will inevitably include the phrase “dead orthodoxy.”
20. You wish there was some way of incorporating an altar call into your service.
21. You have a “worship team.”
22. You believe that Republican and Christian are synonyms.
23. You spend more time working on the liturgical drama than the sermon.
24. You nod your head and say, “Mmm…” when someone says “doctrine divides.”
25. You get really bummed that your conversion story isn’t more exciting during the open-mike time of sharing.
26. You could sell your copy of the Westminster Confession in like-new condition.
27. You think that the PCUSA went liberal because people “just really stopped loving Jesus.”
