Posted on 03/23/2015 8:46:15 PM PDT by ReformationFan
From its inception Christianity was a marginalized not a culturally powerful or influential religion.
With the death of the mainlines were witnessing the last gasp of the informal Constantinianism in America, the gathering of cultural elites in the narthex of tall-steeple PCUSA congregations. The informal coalition of cultural and political power brokers in and with the mainline is dead. The WWII generation was probably the last to care to identify with the mainline or to seek the approval of the mainline. Now that the culture has got what it wanted, capitulation, even the NYT will ignore it. There is no reason to pay attention to the PCUSA. They arent saying anything that cant be found in the Times. The point of paying attention to the PCUSA was to humiliate it into ideological conformity.
The New York Times reported yesterday that a sufficient number of presbyteries of the liberal, mainline Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) have voted to approve gay marriage that church order Book of Order will, beginning in June of this year, define marriage no longer as between a man and a woman but between two people, traditionally a man and a woman. Those who still believe in nature may be glad that the language still stipulates human beings but we may also wonder how long thatshibboleth will stand now that Americas mainline Presbyterian body has capitulated to the cultural demand that marriage be re-defined in terms of affection and consent. The article notes two interesting facts. First, though the PCUSA is usually said to be 2.4 million members, the article described the PCUSA as having 1.8 million members. Second, it attributed the loss of 600,000 members since 2011 to the leftward move of the denomination and particularly to the 2011 decision to ordain homosexuals and lesbians as ministers.
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We are become the II Timothy 3 Generation in this country.
God is not mocked. He will repay.
Wolf among the sheep. There is no Christ within them.
“have voted to approve gay marriage “
Read the Bible much? I think these “holy” men are pretty clear that they consider God’s opinion on the matter, if they’ve even bothered to consult Him, to be irrelevant.
Obviously, they are no longer a Christian church. Satan is in the pulpit. They have become infested the same as the Episcopalians. If I were a member, I would withdraw immediately.
“Come out from among them”-St. Paul
You have to have "perish" established before you can offer a lifeline.
Well, have the Presbyterians been dropping in numbers to justify such a change. They can do what they wish, but the big growing trend in the U.S. and the world is agnosticism and atheism. I have a hard time seeing where they can hope to actually appease that genuinely growing percentage of the population?
Exactly. I fail to see how they think this will attract more members and more tithes and offerings for them. Bible believing Presbyterians are leaving in droves. And why would liberal agnostics and atheists support a religion with their time and money when they can be liberal agnostics and atheists anyway for free without that extra time and commitment?
I agree but not all Presbyterians are like the PCUSA.
http://theaquilareport.com/pca-affirms-biblical-marriage/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3173665/posts
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