Posted on 01/29/2009 8:17:42 PM PST by PAR35
Another Presbyterian Church (USA) is set to close its doors this spring. West Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, Del., has announced that it will hold its last worship service in its historic Gothic church building on April 26.
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In the ‘90s, it became a More Light Presbyterians governing body member by ascribing to their mission statement: "Following the risen Christ, and seeking to make the Church a true community of hospitality, the mission of More Light Presbyterians is the full participation of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people of faith in the life, ministry, and witness of the Presbyterian Church (USA)."
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“the endowment is no longer paying the bills it once did,” according to published reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at layman.org ...
It just figures... the church went queer, and after that it was all about the endowment.
Well, that didn't work too well. FYI - Conservative churches I know are booming...
Stand guard - they will seek to infiltrate....wolves in sheeps clothing.
Seems like they’re always looking for somebody well-endowed...uh...yeah.
Colonel, USAFR
“More Light” Weren’t those the last words said by the bad guy in Disney’s The Black Hole?
I don't know - they managed to use it to fund their activities for over 10 years.
As TEC discovered and ELCA is in the process of discovering, the homosexual lobby is like an Ebola virus, or maybe a flesh-eating bacteria, in the body of Christ. PCUSA appears to have a terminal infection.
I’d like to be wealthy enough to buy an old church someday. Maybe, if enough of the Protestant churches go belly up and my drive-in euthanasia centers take off, I’ll be able to do just that. Seems to me that a sanctuary in these beautiful old places would be fantastic places to have a sound system worthy of Bach and Hyden and . . . well, you know, the old masters that wrote music for these kind of places.
Won't you need to run a chain of used car lots as well?
Nah. See, you drive your family’s choice for murder in and drop them off. Then, the subject is ushered into a chamber where they can select their favorite music (i.e.; Grateful Dead) and colors/images/porn and a music light show takes them to their eternal reward suffused in the best mega-narco-cocktail they’ve ever had. The scent of cheeseburgers, pizza or any other boomer favorite can be piped into their room from the opposite side of the operation - a retro style drive-in.
All is well. Money is to be made.
Step one was the creation of urban presbyteries which wouldn't be constrained by conservative congregations. Step two was the election of female deacons, in violation of the BoCO. Now they are moving to the third step, which is trying to push deaconesses on the rest of the denomination. They'll probably make a move at the next GA.
At this point, it appears that they are about 40 yearrs behind the PCUSA.
OK, I thought the clients would have to drive themselves in, and you’d soon have a full parking lot.
in opposition to the long-developing theological liberalism which denied the deity of Jesus Christ and the inerrancy and authority of Scripture. Additionally, the PCA held to the traditional position on the role of women in church offices.In December 1973, delegates, representing some 260 congregations with a combined communicant membership of over 41,000 that had left the PCUS, gathered at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and organized the National Presbyterian Church, which later became the Presbyterian Church in America.
We hold to a plenary inspiration of Scripture, the virgin Birth of Christ, His substitutianary (please forgive the spelling, I am extremely jet-lagged) death. To wit, our beliefs can be summed up in the Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter Catechisms. We confess the Apostle's Creed (making note that "catholic" means "universal"). We are reformed, holding to a TULIP expression of Calvinism.
Please visit the website of the church and click on those links.
Disclosure: I am not a PCA pastor. I am not ordained. I never preach except to children and women. I am a missionary sent out under the auspices of the PCA church. Here is my website and our latest newsletter. Thank you for giving me an opening to share this info.
I had no clue that some churches were ordaining women to the office of deacon.
I’m overseas and I can’t keep up.
That’s not a bad idea either. There’s money today in Grandpa’s buick (solid and reliable) and there’ll be money tomorrow in the boomer’s SUV.
Eat the kernals - sell the cob. Best of both worlds (even better if you open a fertilizer or Soylent Green operation).
They claim that they aren’t ordaining them - they ‘commission and install’ them. But other than that terminology, it’s hard to tell any difference. Nomination, training, approval by the session, election by the congregation...
Here’s a report from one of the presbyteries that doesn’t fall into the liberal urban category (Sorry for the length of the link):
If you mean the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, that is where the church in question is going. The details are in the link. There are other spin-offs too, but I am not familiar with them.
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