[Always A Marine]

While I'm certainly sympathetic to the church which has Billy Graham's brother-in-law by Nelson Bell II as one of its teaching elders(and if memory serves me correctly, I thought his father Nelson Bell I was also one of the pastors there at one time), why didn't they leave over 20 years ago and join the PCA? Many Bible believing Presbyterians did and founded Park Cities Presbyterian in Dallas.

There are still quite a few very conservative PCUSA congregations that have hung around to fight for the local properties that they built themselves. I have in-laws who've spent their lives in a strong, Bible believing church in exurban North Carolina, and they've been ready to jump for years. Now that PCUSA's congregations have won the right to leave the denomination intact, we can expect to see all of the remaining good ones leave that rotting corpse in the very near future.

[ReformationFan]

I hope so. And that the Biblically conservative churches stay true to God’s word.

[boxlunch]

Now that PCUSA's congregations have won the right to leave the denomination intact, we can expect to see all of the remaining good ones leave that rotting corpse in the very near future.

Has that become a new legal precedent? I thought it was a case by case basis and just decided on the whim of a local judge, but what you say sounds encouraging. I was wondering of the timing of this (we don't attend there any more as we moved away but am following this because we still really care for that church.)