The PC (Politically Correct) (USA) Church is losing members, so it has to reach out to the vast homosexual population.
In 1999, the PC(USA) reported 2,560,201 members, so the current membership reflects a net loss of 483,063 members, or about 18.9 percent, over the last 10 years.
‘reflects a net loss of 483,063 members, or about 18.9 percent, over the last 10 years.’ That is not fast enough. Nearly all however are still influenced by their liberal denomination beliefs and do not join the PCA or the OPC. We are better off without them.
As a PCUSA member it is sad. We recently left our church of many years over this issue. We found another church a bit farther from home. It too is PCUSA, and I was hesitant to go there (supporting the Beast to some degree at the national level). However, this church is part of a group of PCUSA churches that has gone so far as to sign a commitment to no homosexual preachers - even if it means getting kicked out of the PCUSA if it comes to that.
Very Bible believing, evangelical and mission oriented. Any preacher I have heard preach there (huge church) gives preaches the Bible. One of them is VERY adament on how “I don’t have a choice. It is NOT just some guidlines - it is how God wants us to live. It is a command - I don’t get to vote on it.
What is interesting is that he has some typical homosexual tendencies, single, and lives with a bunch of other guys in a large house. And he has let it be known that he does not desire to have children. I suppose I am a bigot in letting those tendencies influence me. A best friend way back had similar mannerisms and was as straight as anyone - but just a kind and gentle guy. (Except for the bully that called him a faggot - and he knocked him out and broke his jaw in two places with one punch!)
But, whenever the homosexual issue comes up - this pastor is right there denouncing it, along with premarital sex and all the other stuff some of us might like to do. We all have our sins, vices, bad habits, etc. But we also have our own will, and our choice whether to follow God’s word - or our own desires.
But like he said - we don’t get a vote.