Well, allow me to simply respond that I think Michael's approach is what is wrong with the PCA - namely, people lashing out before reading carefully and thinking about what someone else has written. Such rhetoric is reaching epidemic proportions, and hopefully through the course of seminary he'll learn to moderate his reactions to people and read them more carefully. Nowhere in my post did I advocate a particular position on the Sabbath. Thus Michael's sentence "This is such a non-confessional view" really can't apply to anything because I didn't promote a view. I simply said that some positions on the Sabbath would allow this in good conscience, some wouldn't. The point may be trivial, but that was my point. Further, the man asking this question is not a pastor, he is not required to subscribe to the Westminster Confession.

So here was my post:

paragraph one: various positions exist, some allow this, some don't

paragraph two: research your responsibilities as a franchisee

paragraph three: giving him some helpful perspectives on moral decisionmaking

paragraph four: giving him the bad news that he's not going to find anybody supporting his opening before lunchtime, and finally that his calculation here is as an employer which puts him under a heavier obligation than if he were a wage slave somewhere.

I miss where I advocate a non-confessional position. I do advocate his thinking through all the positions, even those that differ from the WCF, however. And nowhere did I make a distinction between continental and Puritan positions - I just simply said that there are other positions besides the Puritan one.

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Jonathan Barlow
Under Care, Missouri Presbytery, PCA
Grad Student, St. Louis University
From Picayune, MS, now a St. Louisan