You should be heartened by news of a recent development intended to alleviate the long-standing dearth of seminaries to provide pastors for the "faithful remnant" of Congregationalism. This dearth has prompted difficult choices for men called to the pastorate, forcing them to choose between schools which either retained the ancient polity but had abandoned orthodox doctrine, or were faithful to the doctrinal standards but did not recognize the polity, or most often, some mixture of both.

At the behest of, and in concert with, the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference, Westminster Theological Seminary (PA) is graciously preparing to provide a "Congregational track" for students wanting to remain faithful to orthodox doctrine under the Savoy Declaration. With Savoy so closely derived from the WCF, this makes perfect sense for both bodies.

Please pray that in the coming generation this training will be used to strengthen sound doctrine and life in our conservative Congregational (maybe I should say "semi-Presbyterian"!) churches.

In Christ,
Paul S