Srdja Trifkovic’s ‘anti-ecumenical unity’ is surely the way forward for us reactionaries of different Christian traditions

Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, or Reformed- it doesn't matter. Apart from micro/regional iterations or independent congregations carrying on their respective traditions, all the national, legacy denoms are cooked, even the "conservative" ones. >> https://t.co/0byN8u60SW

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

Yes, minorities within each remain faithful. Yes, they are not all equally far gone. And yes, the orthodox might have a good year or two at synod. But the elite apparatus of them all is riddled with Regimevangelicals and cucked conservatives that won't really fight them. >>

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

The days of the major bodies in every stream are numbered. The orthodox will be brought to heel or driven out by discipline or by disgust. And then they will go full mainline, apostatize, and die. >>

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

The future is going to be orthodox believers of various traditions informally partnering and standing together against a hostile culture and a hostile set of state churches. >>

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

Where it goes from there, I can't guess. Maybe new, faithful denominations of each stripe will emerge. Maybe a new set of denominational traditions will be born of the camaraderie that forms in the trenches.

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

But what is clear is that the situation is more extreme than we usually allow ourselves to think and we need to get the right frame of mind about who our friends and enemies are. >>

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

As a Reformed guy in a currently independent Reformed congregation I recognize the major Reformed denominations, as a whole, must be regarded as hostile, even as individual people and congregations in them are friendlies. >>

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

And the people of rival streams that hold fast to the faith of our fathers (which includes their morality) are also friends fighting their own set of hostiles. I have your back, insofar as I can help you. I hope you'll have mine. >>

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

We need to get over the immature aspects of our denominational rivalries. We can still debate which of us has the superior understanding of doctrine. But we have to stop boasting about 'my tradition being the most faithful' because they've all crapped the bed right now. >>

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

No time for that anymore. We don't have the luxury of arrogance. All of our confessions and polities failed to keep the snakes and wolves out. Because no matter how biblical they are, none of them work without loyalty to God and a commitment to holiness. >>

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

So let us renew our commitments to our King and forge anew bonds of friendship with all who have not bowed the knee to Baal and fight for the Church – not just this or that passing denomination – THE Church, wherever God has placed us within it.

— 🟩The Mallard Reborn🟩 (@MallardReborn) June 23, 2024

Been saying this for a quarter century online, and a decade plus here. 🙂