The Federal Vision report - redux

I decided to watch the webcast regarding the federal vision report this afternoon and after some debate the vast majority (I'd guess at least 80% based on the video feed) of the delegates voted to accept it. ReformedNews.com was liveblogging if you want to get an idea of what the discussion was like - although the session should in short order be archived online for later viewing.

I'm not quite sure what exactly this means for the PCA - the idea I recieved from the webcast is that this report is a document that the assembly founded useful and reccomended to others, but at the same time it doesn't appear to be a document binding upon the denomination. (Perhaps someone can better explain - or perhaps correct - my understanding of the actual status of these reports). Of course, the PCA's good faith subscription model also makes this more ambiguous.

A few comments:

• I can't recall hearing a single reference to scripture throughout the committee's presentation - just the Westminster Confession over and over again.
• From the liveblogging:
  

  3:41 - Question whether the committee contacted FV men; response from Fowler is "no"; committee decided not to engage the FV until after the report, then after report's completion decided that further engagement not necessary. Defends focusing on written sources. Mentions reading blogs as well.

  One thing that I find a little bit odd is that the Federal Vision folks seem to argue that virtually anyone who publically disagrees with them misunderstands their position. How can you write a number of books (and the committee behind the report also mentions blog reading) and still be completely incomprehensible? I've still got some reading to do in this regarding - there are books on both sides of the federal vision sitting on my bookshelf, waiting to be read.

• On a completely unrelated note - my copy of Brian Moss's CD arrived today