Emeritus passion

I am an 81-year-old retired elder (“emeritus”) from a Presbyterian congregation in Scarborough, Ont., whose dedicated passion is to be part of an ongoing reformation within our Canadian Presbyterian Church.
As staid (stayed?) Presbyterians, we have allowed our church to stagnate—to become irrelevant to the Christian mandate of this era. To have assumed that “canon law” was without question; that God (He/She/It) did in fact present Itself to one Middle East tribe with such selective prejudice as to have negated the veracity of much older and still living and revered religions; this does present serious questioning for Christians today.
Forty-eight years ago I became a member of this congregation. Our first full-time pastor was Rev. Donald Kemble, a Netherlander, whose theology was commensurate to that particular paradigm of reformed thought. I mention this frame as I and others of this congregation have a substantial spiritual investment in this little Christian family in Scarborough. Our national church is losing membership and our theological schools are not venturing into a faith-stretching envelope of growing understanding. As there are so many progressive invitations for thinking Christians to clarify their ongoing Christ-journey, it is truly sad that these spiritual visionaries are not being encouraged. Notably, they include John Spong with The Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity and Rev. Gretta Vosper of West Hill United Church (www.progressivechristianity.ca). Others who are leading with great insight are: Tom Harpur, Stephen Hodge, Martin Boord, Jeffrey Moses, Michael Baigent, Karen Armstrong, Robert Monroe, Mark Epstein and Albert Taylor. These are but a few authors whose books bring fresh thinking to us and are available in our local libraries.
There are those of us who believe in a living Christ who, while leading and nurturing us through centuries, also entreats us to avail ourselves of the physical knowledge and other scientific accumulations that we have garnered over the generations. A good example of Biblical knowledge in those days was that the earth was flat and that vertical observations gave us our heavenly orientation and source of God-information. If we are to respect Biblical truth, then we must allow that truth to be applicable today. If the God of the Old Testament spoke personally to the prophets, does He still speak personally to His church today? If not, why not? We have a lot of ongoing reform to accomplish!