Posted on 05/27/2025 7:14:50 PM PDT by Morgana
The Presbyterian Church (USA) just revealed its membership numbers for 2024, and it is not pretty. The liberal denomination is showing a continued loss of membership, closure of churches, an increasingly aging population, and an inexorable decline into irrelevancy, with one of the only rising data points being the number of members who identify as “non-binary” or “genderqueer.”
Since its formation, the PCUSA has denigrated to one massive pen for goats, run almost exclusively by faithless, didn’t-finish-well octogenarians and blue-haired lesbians, with barely a sheep to be found anywhere. Some of their greatest hits over the last three years include:
Church Fasting from ‘Whiteness’ During Lent
Church Releases ‘Transgendered’ Remix of ‘Be Thou My Vision,’
Pro-Abortion Pastrix Says Stories of Jonah and Zacchaeus are Proof We Should Subsidize Birth-Control
Presbyterian Pastor Denies The Virgin Birth ‘It’s Biology 101’
PCUSA Impastor Suggests Eve in the Garden is a Pro-Choice Example + ‘Trust Women to Have Abortions Because of Her’
At Upcoming Annual Meeting, The PCUSA Plots To Remove All Clergy Who Aren’t Pro-LGBTQ
No Surprise Here: PCUSA’s Clergy Health Plan Covers Elective Abortions
PCUSA Pastor Says Jesus Would Have Been an ‘Abortion Doula’ + ‘Blessed Are Those End Their Pregnancies’
Unlike the theologically conservative Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), which has grown over the years instead of continuing to contract, the PCUSA’s future is far more bleak.
Some of the highlights from the PCUSA’s newly release report include:
Membership declined by 48,885 people from the year prior, representing a 4.5% drop to 1,045,848 people. Over the last 30 years, the PCUSA has lost 66% of their members.
Of the million members that remain, 34% of them are over the age of 70, meaning that the denomination is both spiritually and physically dying.
Another 25% are between the ages of 56-70. Less than 4% are under 17, another 7% between the ages of 18-25, and 13% between the ages of 26-40.
The PCUSA shuttered 149 churches and 652 ministers either died, retired or were removed from office.
The majority of churches are small, with over 45% having 50 or fewer members.
22.7% of PCUSA churches comprise less than 25 people, and another 22.5% have between 26 and 50 members. Furthermore, another 23.4% of churches have between 51-100 members. Notably, these numbers are only the names on the books and don’t reflect only those who consistently gather in person every week, which is much lower.
In 2021, the PCUSA had 919 churches with more than 800 members. Three years later, that number has dropped to only 367.
87.6% of members are white, and women outnumber the men 59.2%-40.6%
Lastly, one of the few data points where the denomination saw an increase was the number of members who identify as non-binary/genderqueer, increasing by 12% from the year before and more than 31% from the year before that.
It took me two decades and a condo’s worth of beer—plus a reading of Gresham Meacham to understand what went wrong with the PCUSA.
So what went wrong? In 500 words or less.
This overall trend is why men aren’t in churches and aren’t getting married. Common sense. You don’t go where you aren’t wanted.
Blasphemy. The Saints hate that because God does.
By 2050, the PCUSA will become a real estate holding company, and liquidating bequests of stocks and bonds from wealthy benefactors from the Robber Baron era and the G.I. Generation. That will also be the case with the other six denominations of mainline Protestantism called the Seven Sisters. There is a Catholic apologist who jokes that the mainline Protestant churches in his downtown in a Midwestern city compete for the 37 homosexuals who live in downtown lofts.
Like all the other liberal protestant churches, the PCUSA took the low view of Christ. That they took on the old arian heresy that Jesus is fully man but not Fully God. The Arian heresy was the big exciting heresy of the 18th Century that both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson embraced.
The problem with the Arian heresy is that changes the central mystery of Christianity from a reconciliation between God and man(and man to God) into a mere human sacrifice. That kind of sacrifice is no better than an Aztec sacrifice. You look into a liberal congregation and see that they look pitiful. that’s the reason. st paul mentioned something about that.
The Arian heresy was defeated way back in the 4th century. How did it come back? Didn’t people in the 18th century read how the Arian heresy had been debunked?
Just wait until he gets to Lazarus and Jesus coming back from the dead.
A lot of the senior pastors now were leftwingers who got a deferment out of military service during VN for going to seminary. They kept their leftwing views and apply them while getting decent income through endowments. I remember the National Pres Church in DC held a welcome home party for the draft dodgers when the miserable flop Jimmy Carter pardoned them; the denomination did nothing for the combat veterans.
I left the PCUSA church I was attending in 1994. We had a solid, biblical preacher who retired and was replaced by a “minister” who adhered to the PCUSA playbook.
Arius was a Christian theologian. He was not present at the Council of Nicea to defend his views and they were declared heretical.
My X’s family attended a PCUSA in the historic section of Dallas. This is a church that started in the late 1800’s and was attended by numerous old money families in the Dallas area. When they started going goofy in the early 80’s, the congregation voted to join the PCA. They were told they couldn’t because the PCUSA owned the property. The congregation raised the money to buy back their church and kicked the PCUSA to the curb.
“So what went wrong? In 500 words or less.”
Four words: “Go woke, go broke.”
Arius was present at the Council of Nicaea. He attended with his bishop, Alexander, and a number of his supporters. The council was convened to address the Arian heresy, which Arius promoted. Although Arius was exiled after the council, he later returned and died shortly before being readmitted to the church.
p> Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus, slapped Arius at the council
What went wrong?
The concept of sola scriptura.
This allows people to interpret scripture as you want
Ah, the church anti-Pope Francis wanted to emulate.
“When they started going goofy in the early 80’s, the congregation voted to join the PCA.”
That’s where we attend now — PCA. They’re more straight-laced than the Baptist churches in the area. Except for a couple things, we’re very happy there.
You’d think they’d be going bankrupt. The Catholic Chuch is: desantcifying churches and selling off its real-estate like crazy, and still hemorrhaging, even though the Catholic Church is doing fantastic compared to the PCUSA.
But the PCUSA is still making money hand-over-fist. They’ve become a wildly successful real-estate firm. Who needs congregants, when you have rich, dying fools? Plenty of income and no pesky expenses like oh, mission work. $3.5 billion in revenue. That’s $3,500 per nominal member, and probably more like $10 or $15,000 per attendee. The attendees leave the church in drove, but the dying rich fools stay.
“””A lot of the senior pastors now were leftwingers who got a deferment out of military service during VN for going to seminary. They kept their leftwing views and apply them while getting decent income through endowments.”””
When I was a PCUSA elder I clearly remember having a discussion with a PCUSA minister who proudly told me about his involvement with the protest movements in the early 1970’s.
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