Special Report Confessing Church Movement Volume 34, Number 3 – April 2001

Confessing Movement has ‘proud heritage’ The Presbyterian Layman Volume 34, Number 3 Posted April 20, 2001 Achtemeier A Presbyterian seminary professor says the emerging “Confessing Church Movement” in the Presbyterian Church (USA) is “a witnessing strategy that has a proud and distinguished heritage within the Reformed tradition.” Dr. Mark Achtemeier, associate professor of systematic theology at Dubuque Theological Seminary, told The Presbyterian Layman that the movement “is vastly more in keeping with our trust in ‘one Lord, one faith, one baptism’ than are efforts aimed at fomenting schism. “In a situation such as ours, where the larger church seems to lack an authoritative teaching office that can effectively uphold and defend its identification with this faith of the church catholic, such a confessing movement holds out the promise of a continuing, faithful witness to the gospel among Presbyterians,” he said. “I pray that God will protect and purify the witness of this new movement, granting it rapid increase and decisive influence in the life of the PCUSA.”

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