It seems clear to us that the majority of Fellowship churches were unaware that FEBPAC had been granted, what we would deem to be, a kind of “leniency” on the complementarian issue. We believe this was done primarily to keep the peace and keep the BC churches in FEB National. (This evaluation has been verbally affirmed to us by multiple people on both sides of the issue, some of whom were part of those 1997-2004 discussions.)
Therefore, when a minority group of churches within FEBPAC make motions to move church practice toward the 1997 Position Statement and 2004 Constitutional Amendment, this can be framed as divisive behaviour within the Region since special permission to interpret these statements as limited to “Senior Pastors only” was granted in 2004 by the FEB National board.
While we do not agree that calling for congruence to the Statement and Amendment is divisive, we understand how it appears that way to those who believe that congruence to these statements was settled some 20 years ago.
Upon reflection, this only heightens our desire for the FEBPAC Regional Board to cease removing churches in the present while the larger issues are addressed at a National level. We are not sure what else those dissenting churches were supposed to do? They could have raised the issue for theological discussion, but almost certainly such a motion would have been defeated since the majority of FEBPAC churches believe it is already settled
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