Better late than never, sister...
the big “mainline: churches seem to have embraced as much hooey as one could imagine at this point what with their “gay” “marriages” “mother God Father God nonsense...and in once case I witnessed in an Episcopal Church... a priest using scatological language IN THE PULPIT.
Great question.
I looked at the ECO website, can’t figure out what they are all about. Any insights?
Better late than never. Every loser I meet from the PCUSA is essentially a universalist of some kind who favors gay marriage. I’ve literally never met a good one.
late but at least its not never
see what "denominations" can do??? anything they want..there are no more rules as to what is and what is not Christianity....
It must really suck to have to split off from a congregation because it went south, so to speak.
I’m trying to figure out the difference between the ECO and PCA. Is ECO semi-liberal?
Actually the majority of the church voted to leave. But the rules that were in place was a 2/3 vote was required (I think that is the number)
Clayton Bell (Dr. Nelson Bell’s son)was the pastor at that time and advocated staying within PCUSA and working to reform it from within (which probably caused a percentage of the congregation to vote to stay rather than leave), but most felt that the denomination as a whole was too far gone.
It was very unfortunate that even though a majority wanted to leave at that time it just wasn’t quite a large enough percentage to be able to leave under the rules. It was really close, something like 62% and we needed 66%, so that is why it was so heartbreaking and painful for that church at the time.
These were rules that had been put in place when the Southern Presbyterian church (I think it was PCUS?) rejoined with the Northern church in the 1970s; The Southern Presbyterian denomination was still fairly conservative, but the northern pres denom was very liberal. They had put in rules that within a certain number of years a former southern Presbyterian church could leave with its property if they decided they didn’t want to remain within the “merged” denomination, but only with a fairly high percentage of the vote - they made it a pretty high hurdle to jump over.
There are still quite a few very conservative PCUSA congregations that have hung around to fight for the local properties that they built themselves. I have in-laws who've spent their lives in a strong, Bible believing church in exurban North Carolina, and they've been ready to jump for years. Now that PCUSA's congregations have won the right to leave the denomination intact, we can expect to see all of the remaining good ones leave that rotting corpse in the very near future.
Good for them. It takes a couple of years to leave a denomination and affiliate with a new one. At one time PCUSA was conservative, but it has been taken up by radical liberals.
Hooray