Posted on 06/19/2010 6:46:38 PM PDT by Amerisrael
From WKYT News in Louisville, Kentucky: "The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) eliminated 49 more jobs at its Louisville headquarters."
"The Courier-Journal reported that the church, struggling financially, announced the cuts on Friday that included a combination of layoffs, voluntary severance and attrition."
"The cuts come after the council's governing board earlier thisweek approved an $82 million budget for 2011 and $80 million for2012 - down from this year's budget of $93.8 million."
"The newspaper reported that the denomination has been copingwith losses in membership, congregations, contributions andinvestment returns."
No wonder,----- read the most the most recent previous post.
For those who would like to protest the biased unfactual anti-Israel PCUSA "study report", and their unbiblical views towards Israel, here is the contact info for their headquaters:
Office of the General Assembly
100 Witherspoon Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40202-1396
(888) 728-7228
(502) 569-5000
Fax: (502) 569-8005
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Would you say, Lee N. Field, that Catholicism has its merits?
It’s wonderful you have such a knowledge on some of the questions affecting Presbyterians and the modern church in this country in general. I’d love to know more about where you stand on things and what direction you believe the church is going.
Check this one out. Even Better
This is nothing new. I was a Member and left YEARS ago (I was 20) over similar stunts.
They will end up like the Anglican church.
You go three times,
When your Hatched, Matched and Dispatched.
Would you say, Lee N. Field, that Catholicism has its merits?
The Romans have too much baggage. There's that whole thing with the anathemas of Trent ("we're unreformable!"). I'll pass. Endangering my soul by swimming the Tiber doesn't remotely tempt me.
It’s wonderful you have such a knowledge on some of the questions affecting Presbyterians
It's intertwined with places I have been. And, quien sabe?, may be again.
and the modern church in this country in general. I’d love to know more about where you stand on things and what direction you believe the church is going.
Do you? I'm grumpy right now. It was one of those Sundays where I had to filter what I heard real hard for gospel.
The church, Christ's body and bride and the true temple of God, the full number of the elect known only to God, the church that "the Son of God from the beginning to the end of the world, gathers, defends, and preserves to himself by his Spirit and word, out of the whole human race, a church chosen to everlasting life", that church will be preserved by God. Not one will be lost. That church, as C. S. Lewis opined wonderfully somewhere, will outlive the universe.
The corner of the visible institutional church that I inhabit has lived in Disneyland too long. Laodicean slumber all the way.
I'm far from alone in thinking this. There's a whole genre of books now, on the dire state of the conservative protestant church in America now. As a recommended for instance, order out Michael Horton's Christless Christianity.
Fortunately, America is not the world. Unfortunately for us, "Disneyland" will probably be coming to an end, historically soon.
Like I said, I'm feeling grumpy today.
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