Posted on 07/11/2008 10:21:47 AM PDT by NYer
We visited a PCA church in PA, and they were good people in a good conservative denomination, but it was just different than what we were familiar with. So, I would really be thankful for a split so we could get some conservatism back into the PCUSA church.
Well thank you for the information. I’m not very familiar with the organizations and their various flavors.
The Church of What’s Happenin’ Now...bump
(tip of the hat to the late Flip Wilson)
Wikipedia says Charlotte NC and Pittsburgh PA are two of the most Presbyterian places in the US.
PCUSA now stands for Politically Correct USA
Exactly... i.e. John ch 10..
Does that mean “presbyterian = liberal” or “presbyterian = number of members”? lol
You are so right.... they may as well go ahead and join with United Church of Christ
Not all Presbyterians. This is the liberal PCUSA. There are Presbyterian denominations that are true to scripture, the PCA (which I belong to) is one of them. Learn to tell the difference. BTW, there isn’t anything wrong with a drink now and then and a little dance, that is an anabaptist construction.
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I don’t know.
Honestly, I’m not either. There are a bewildering variety of Presbyterian denominations—Presbyterians fractured over slavery in the 1800s and ever since there have been branches and sub-branches largely split between North and South. PCUSA is the biggest and most national. The Presbyterian Church in America (where I came to Christ) and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church are two of the conservative, smaller but growing denominations. The PCA, as I understand it, is more centered in the South, and the OPC in the North.
PCA is a conservative, Bible-believing denomination. No female pastors, no gay marriage, strongly mission-oriented and pro-life. My pastor in South Carolina was a wonderful man, a big, burly, no-BS guy from Michigan named Rick Perrin. He didn’t do fire and brimstone, but by the end of a sermon, you had ZERO doubt that you had just been preached to, and not one of these fluff-coated sweetness-and-light sermons either! Real spiritual red meat.
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Hmm. All the need now is a modern day prophet to proclaim that polygamy an holy sacrament.
Names and numbers please ;-)
“The preachers aren’t going to have any vices to preach against before long.”
No, there are plenty of vices against which to preach: there’s using air conditioners, having too many babies, disapproving of homosexual conduct and rights, doubting global warming, opposing socialism, failing to provide social justice, eating meat, to name just a few. The preachers will be busy as ever.
You should file suit to make them change their name to something else, since they are denegrating the value of your trademark.
***BTW, there isn’t anything wrong with a drink now and then and a little dance***
Vertical or horizontal? :)
Separating the wheat from the chaff.
Vertical or horizontal? :)
There’s a great Baptist joke in there somewhere.
Seiously, this PCUSA change is tragic. I know some fine, conservative Presbyterians.
Sorry. I’m not a dating service. :)
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