From the story: Memorial Park Presbyterian Church secured a court injunction last week to allow its congregation to meet this past weekend over the objections of the Pittsburgh Presbytery, and the McCandless church used the opportunity to vote overwhelmingly to disaffiliate from the Presbyterian Church (USA) for a more biblically conservative denomination. Read more…
The PC (USA) is losing members at an accelerating rate of one member per eleven minutes. At this current rate, there will not be any members left in the PC (USA) by 2058. Those of us who have decided to stay and fight have an uphill battle as liberal interests are well entrenched in the national denominational headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.
That said, there are some encouraging signs. The current Stated Clerk is stepping down and there may be the chance of electing a replacement who actually understands that you can’t advocate policies (dare I say that are unbiblical) that antagonize a majority of the members.
Here is a hint for PC (USA) leadership - a nice start would be to prohibit the use of the phrase “anti-choice” in official PC (USA) publications when describing those of us who are pro-life.
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