Posted on 10/06/2012 1:15:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’ll bet same sex “marriage” is all the church members dream about at night.
Statistical sleight of hand. People and entire congregations who oppose sodomite marriage have left the PCUSA in droves, so I’m amazed that there isn’t more acceptance within the remnants of the PCUSA.
I hope people don’t confuse the PCUSA with the PCA.
How many Presbyterians and Presbyterian churches have left PCUSA since 2005?
When Christians abandon the liberal coven that is the pro-abort, pro-homosexual, anti-semite PCUSA, they can hardly claim to be “winning hearts and minds”. Those who remain may not even agree with the positions, just “going along to get along” and continuing to attend the same church their parents brought them to as kids.
I know I walked.
RE: I hope people dont confuse the PCUSA with the PCA.
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For those who don’t know, here’s a little history...
The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) is an evangelical Protestant Christian denomination in the Reformed tradition. It is the second largest Presbyterian church body in the United States. The church declares its goal to be “faithful to the Scriptures, true to the Reformed faith, and obedient to the Great Commission.”
Conservative pastors and lay leaders became alarmed by the PCUSA’s drift from orthodoxy and historic confessional and biblical standards of the church.
By the 1970s, conservative pastors in the PCUSA began to plan an exit from the denomination.
They sought to reaffirm the Westminster Confession of Faith as the fullest and clearest exposition of biblical faith and to call all pastors and leaders to affirm the inerrancy of Scripture. As a result they also felt the church should disavow the ordination of women.
In December 1973, delegates from 260 congregations (over half of them from Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina) that had left the PCUSA gathered at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in suburban Birmingham, Alabama, and organized the National Presbyterian Church. After protests from a UPCUSA congregation of the same name in Washington, D.C., the denomination at its Second General Assembly (1974) called itself the National Reformed Presbyterian Church, then adopted its present name (Presbyterian Church in America or PCA) the next day.
Politically Correct(USA) has not proclaimed the gospel for a century.
I think the PCA’s wrong about ordaining women. There I said it.
LOL! Good one!
the demoralization continues by the anti-America, anti-Christian communists...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQoGMtE0EY
look at the whole vid before it’s removed again.
Fake poll alert. If 49 percent of pastors favor it — they should be defrocked or whatever they do to Presbyterian ministers. Each and every one of them. They are Satan’s own minions
God doesn’t poll the electorate. And Heaven is not a democracy.
Satan has taken over (Alinsky style) over these so-called “Christian” Churches. Basically populated by ugly old fat women and hippie style graybeards.
That's a no brainer. The conservatives have left by the busload leaving the lunatics to run the asylum..
It's like saying the Muslims support the Koran.
In 2005, PC(USA) members=100,000, and pastors=10,000.
Surveying the members and pastors, Presbyterian Research Services (PRS) found that 23,000 of the 100,000 members (23%) supported same-sex marriage, and that 3500 of the pastors (35%) supported same-sex marriage.
Shortly thereafter, the exodus from the PC(USA) of 32,350 Conservative Christian members and 2,860 pastors began.
In 2012, PC(USA) members=67,650, and pastors=7,140.
Surveying the members and pastors of PC(USA), PRS found that 23,000 of the 67,650 members (34%) supported same-sex marriage, and that 3500 of the 7,140 pastors (49%) supported same-sex marriage.
The Presbyterian Research Services report on the 2005 versus 2012 member and pastor support for same-sex marriage within the PC(USA) was praised as a "blessed increase" by the PC(USA) leadership, and as "huge and series increase" by the leftist media.
The PCA does not ordain women or practicing homosexuals.
Indeed. I’m in the PCA myself and I never want it to be confused with the PCUSA which resembles the CPUSA more than anything John Calvin or John Knox taught.
sad. The left continues to try to infiltrate and destroy each group of Christians
Yes. And they're wrong about ordaining women.
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