“Even as we face enormous challenges as a denomination — where our first response might be to restructure our structures or rewrite our bylaws — these structural things are the last thing we need to do,” Presa told the opening session of the Moderator’s Colloquium on Ecclesiology, scheduled from April 23-25 at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (APTS), a sponsor of the event. “What we need is to first consider Christ’s durable and enduring call of what the church is to be and to do.”
How do we hear and live into God’s call to be Christ’s gathered-and-sent community Sunday through Saturday? That will be the topic this week of a theological colloquium on ecclesiology (the nature of the church) organized by Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) General Assembly Moderator Neal Presa and hosted by Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.