North Florida Presbytery (PCA) Same-Sex Attraction Study Committee Report

The Aquila Report ^ | 8/7/2018 | Jim McCarthy

[Pining_4_TX]

Over the years, we have been members of PCA or OPC churches. I have seen first hand how the PCA sometimes takes positions that are skating dangerously close to those held by the mainline denominations. It’s all about the numbers and being appealing to the modern world. It’s sad to see.

[AnalogReigns]

The PCA was originally established when about 10% of the mainline Presbyterians in the southern branch broke away.

I’m afraid some of the old mainline establishment, moderate, get-along-to-go-along types still remain. Sad.

[Pining_4_TX]

True. Some PCA churches were formed because they had political rather than theological differences with the mainline denominations. Then there is the constant effort by Satan to infiltrate and destroy the true church. That is universal.

[Albion Wilde]

Dear Methodists and ex-Methodists: how it should be thought about and how it should be done.

[chajin]

Dear Methodists and ex-Methodists: how it should be thought about and how it should be done.

In order for something like this to happen, the United Methodist church would have to un-unite on theological grounds, as the Presbyterians did, as the Lutherans did, as the American Episcopal/Anglicans did.

To expropriate the Presbyterian terms, there would have to be a Methodist Church (USA), a Methodist Church in America, and an Orthodox Methodist Church, with the MC(USA) openly embracing homosexual heterodoxy, the MCA forming a committee with the above result, and the OMC never broaching the issue in the first place--just as, say, among Lutherans the ELCA openly embraces homosexual heterodoxy, the LCMS wrote its own response, and the WELS would not broach the issue (tbh they might have, I didn't check).

[Bryanw92]

I left the UMC four years ago to join the PCA. The PCA isn’t perfect, but it does use the Bible as a shield against apostasy!

[jagusafr]

Wow! I’m shocked that a current Methodist body would take such a stand. It gives me great comfort that there are still some of us out there. Thanks for the post!

[kosciusko51]

Not Methodist, Presbyterian Church in America.

[jagusafr]

I knew it was too good to be true! Time for a Disunited Methodist Church - actually, long past time.

[imardmd1]

For the UMC "gay" is the non-fruit-bearing evidence of the root of sin, and it traces back through its routes of nutrition to the root, which is the Sin principle. "Gay" is a non-Vine entity, though clinging to It/Him may simulate the Vine and assume His identity, it is not of God.

Therefore (mixing my metaphors), until the fragment sheds the parasitic infection, it is senseless to claim separation (1 Cor. 6:14-7:1) until the spore, the leaven, is expunged from the constitution of the loaf. That includes the gender-bridging taint of female ordination to the diaconary or eldership, to start with.

[Gamecock]

It gives me great comfort that there are still some of us out there.

There aren't.

[x]

What's wrong with "same-sect" attraction?

Do we really want good Presbyterians dating and marrying Methodists and Baptists?

What's that?

Never mind ...

[Albion Wilde]

That includes the gender-bridging taint of female ordination to the diaconary or eldership, to start with.

Amen to that. Women hastened the decline of the UMC precipitously.

[jagusafr]

My particular UMC is full of us.

[imardmd1]

Methodist or whatever. I saw them come in in the '60s, take over in the '70s, which prefaced the allogendric unions start to displace heterogendic.

Here's the bottom line:

Wherever mannish females start having impact in the local assembly, womanish males will stay, and real men will take their real women and leave for genuine Biblical gatherings that meet in the name of Christ and for Him.

It's like the neutron bomb: the real people are gone, the buildings stay.