“Church”.
Not my job to judge them...but man can not make clean what God finds offensive.
The reason this happened is a large number of churches have left. My church left last year.
I don’t think “final judgment” is in their power to pronounce.
No doubt in a year or two it will be:
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After three decades of debate over its stance on adultery, members of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Tuesday to change the definition of marriage in the church’s constitution to celebrate “having a little fun on the side”.
The final approval by a majority of the church’s 171 regional bodies, known as presbyteries, enshrines a change recommended last year by the church’s General Assembly. The vote amends the church’s constitution to broaden marriage from being “for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and health, and forsaking all others, for as long as you both shall live” to “a legal contract and convenience that offers financial benefits but no restrictions”.
“Finally, the church in its constitutional documents fully recognizes that the love of those who stray is worth celebrating in the faith community,” said an intern, speaking on behalf of the Rev. W. J Clinton, executive director of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians, which advocates horndog inclusion in the church. “There is still disagreement, and I don’t mean to minimize that, but I think we are learning that we can disagree and still be church together.”
The church, with about 0.9 million members, was once the largest of the nation’s Presbyterian denominations, but it has been losing congregations and individual members as it has moved to the left theologically over the past several years. There was a wave of departures in and after 2011, and again after 2015, when the presbyteries ratified decisions to ordain gays and lesbians as pastors, elders and deacons, and again to recognize gay “marriage” was if it was real marriage, and that may have cleared the way for Tuesday’s vote.
Now they are the Presbyterian People’s Popular Front. The word “church” cannot in any way apply to them. The Presbyterians are now officially a Synagogue of Satan.
There! Fixed it.
"Citizen Zed: Sounds more like a schism than a vote."
Thread title is evidently pro-gay activists once again trying to give impression that LGBT people are more numerous than they really are.
Once they stop following the Bible, they are no longer a Christian church, no matter what they call themselves. Same with Episcopalians. Morals do not “evolve”.
I’m sure they used the homosexual bible to find the scripture to justify this because in the Christian Bible Jesus talks of marriage being between a man and a woman.
Matthew 19:5 KJV
And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE, 5and said, ‘FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH ‘?
Praying for the still true congregations there to have the courage to leave as many others have done. It is very traumatic and expensive in some cases... my heart goes out to the faithful Pastors and members still within the denomination for the days ahead.
The Mainline's suicide by attrition continues unabated.
Line many of the mainline denominations, they went far left and watched as 30-50% of their members disappeared. Now many are left with a aging congregation and no young members joining.
I know of one church in my area that is barley able to pay their utility bills, they are in a huge building that used to see 200-300 each week but now gets about 70 each week.
And the sound you hear is of the wings of the great speckled bird flying away. It is a reverse Pentecost.
That is the end of this PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH in this country.
Let them be anathema.
1600 years after the establishment of Christianity, the Protestants decided to go their own way, rewrite the Bible, make up their own rules, dismiss the Sacraments, etc....how’s that working out for you???
This will do more damage to the sanctity of traditional marriage than anything the Supreme Court will ever have to say.....