Posted on 11/07/2015 1:45:55 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
A Texas congregation with approximately 2,200 members has voted to disaffiliate from Presbyterian Church (USA) over theological differences.
First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio members voted Sunday to seek dismissal from PC (USA) and to join the more conservative Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians.
According to a vote tally provided to The Christian Post by FPC San Antonio, out of 1,072 voting members present 87.3 percent voted to terminate their affiliation with PC(USA) and 85.6 percent voted to join ECO.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
Do not confuse the PC(USA) with the PCA. The PCA is still committed to biblical marriage.
Reformation news.
What is th penalty for leaving? Seems like the PCUSA was trying to curb the exodus by financially penalizing congregations for leaving.
I am waiting for Atlanta’s huge Peachtree Pres to take a hike away from PCUSA.
Join a PCA church. Presbyterian the way I grew up .
Congratulations: Last Sunday the elders at our church unanimously voted to leave Presbyterian Churches USA as well. Our church is the First Presbyterian Church in Seattle. At one time it was the largest Presbyterian Church in the country and was started before Washington became a state. We will be joining ECO, the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians. The elders got up in front of the congregation where they explained why they made their decision by reading the last four verses of Revelations and stated why they felt Presbyterian Churches USA is failing to fallow the teaching of the Bible.
The PCUSA allows the local Prebytery to impose a “buy out” fee on departing congregations.
A congregation in my area which had predated any larger denominational structures was assessed many 10s of thousands when they departed for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.
Seems hard to me to continue to support a church which doesn’t seem to have a problem with cross-dressers following little girls into ladies’ rooms. But then I’m not part of that ‘church’.
2,200 member church would hardly be considered “large” in Texas.
why don’t they just return to Catholicism where they came from, and actually belong??
I would refer the gentleman to the events of October 31, 1517.
....Catholic....Don’t smack a man fighting for his soul and the souls of his children, pray for him! They took a great step!
“Slightly less liberal” is probably more accurate than “more conservative”.
“why don’t they just return to Catholicism where they came from, and actually belong??”
I read the other day...probably on FR that 70% of American Catholics support gay “marriage”...so I don’t believe that is the direction the Presbyterian church mentioned is heading...
...and if you subtract the number of illegal aliens counted as U.S. Catholic Church members....
I think the growth rate will have fallen through the floor.
Just an observation...tell me if I am wrong.
The decline in church numbers is in “mainline” denominations
that have left the “one true faith” for a worldly...view.
The growth in churches is in Bible based/believing/professing churches.
no
Over half the churches in our country (including Texas) Have less than 100 members.
So with 2200 members, “large” works.
{”why don’t they just return to Catholicism where they came from, and actually belong??”}
Because Protestants do not believe in the necessity of an intercessor. They believe Christ is the intercessor.
More here - apparently, the congregation has had to get a Temporary Injuntion against the Prebytery:
Judge Grants Request for Temporary Injunction Against Mission Presbytery
http://www.layman.org/judge-grants-request-for-temporary-injunction-against-mission-presbytery/
The Presbytery has threatened to remove the pastor and session.
Well, then, I’ll go with my usual description of ECO - liberals that are homophobic.
Churches that have any measure of conservatism go to EPC, not ECO. ECO is made up of folks who stayed with the PCUSA when they stood for abortion. When they stood for women elders. When they stood for women preachers. When they allowed rejection of the Scriptures. When they allowed no-fault divorce.
The breaking point for the ECO crowd was the formal embrace of homosexuality by the PCUSA.
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