O23 failed by only a handful of votes in four presbyteries. Like we have been saying: REs *need* to show up in ALL of the courts of the Church.
IT ABSOLUTELY MATTERS!
After a more careful review of the spreadsheet curated by the indispensable @SEdburg, it appears clear that O23 would have passed if:
–it passed an additional 4 presbyteries,
–9 votes in those four presbyteries flipped, or
–13 additional elders showed up to vote for it in those four presbyteries
Here’s how it breaks down. O23 needed to pass 59 presbyteries to get the required 2/3 supermajority. But O23 only passed 55 presbyteries — a 62.5% majority of presbyteries, but not the 2/3 supermajority needed.
If you look at the four closest reported presbytery votes where O23 did not pass, you find that the closest such presbyteries were:
— Korean Northeastern, where O23 would have passed if one negative vote had flipped to affirmative or if two more affirmative votes had been cast
— Piedmont Triad, where O23 would have passed if two negative votes had flipped to affirmative or if three more affirmative votes had been cast
— Heritage, where O23 would have passed if three negative votes had flipped to affirmative or if four more affirmative votes had been cast
— Hills and Plains, where O23 would have passed if three negative votes had flipped to affirmative or if four more affirmative votes had been cast
Thanks to @hmatthewlee for encouraging us to take a careful look at the numbers.
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