Sadly, I left about three years ago. I had served multiple times as Elder, Deacon, Trustee, in choir and taught our Adult Bible Study for many years. I loved my church, and my congregation were for the most part good believing Christians who were blind to the evil of the PCUSA senior leadership. But the leadership’s views on funding abortion, support for the terrorist state, and ordination of unrepentant sinners (homos) was a violation of conscience that I could not bear. I am still without a church; it is hard to trust again after giving so many years, and giving up all of my deep friendships with fellow believers, some of whom I have known most of my life. All of the mainline protestant denominations seem to be moving in the same direction. I would join Orthodox or even Catholic church, but I live in a very isolated area and the commute would be too much.
Understood!
you did the right thing to get out of Satan’s church.
Calvin would be spinning in his grave, but that’s the way it is now with PCUSA.
I can only say what I would try doing.
I would look around for any decent church ... i would not have to agree with all of its doctrines.... for instance, coming from a Calvinist perspective, I would consider the still-good-varieties of Lutheranism, Church of Nazarene, and a number of additional churches, including RCatholic. Again, the idea would be to find an honest church that tries to read the Bible, period, plus offers fellowship.
You can tell when a church is trying to do the right thing, any specific doctrines can (especially in a situation such as yours where your church of choice was hiacked away from God).... you can tell when a pastor (and the congregation) are trying to do right. I guess its called discernment. Every denomination has some distinctive doctrines and frankly a lot of them are not particularly important in Sunday prayer services, or maybe get included in one prayer or hymn... but anyway if it were me, I would just gently visit any decent-Bible-oriented church that invited or welcomed me... and just patiently (and charitably) sit through a couple Sundays (or Saturdays if that’s their thing) and see what I felt like...
yes we can pray in our closets. and we can pray alone.
but it is also good, methinks, to have other sincere people to pray with, sometimes anyway.
just my thought. its your choice and I know you are in a tough situation with PCUSA having gone bad.
Stay in touch?
Best,
fhc
” Sadly, I left about three years ago. I had served multiple times as Elder, Deacon, Trustee, in choir and taught our Adult Bible Study for many years. I loved my church, and my congregation were for the most part good believing Christians who were blind to the evil of the PCUSA senior leadership. But the leadership’s views on funding abortion, support for the terrorist state, and ordination of unrepentant sinners (homos) was a violation of conscience that I could not bear. I am still without a church; “
This is a doggone shame! How long before they start calling the Ten Commandments, the “Ten Suggestions” Political correctness/leftism is a cancer apparently spreading from one denomination to another. I’m not a Presby, but a number of our church members are former ones, and we meet in a HS auditorium.
I’m fine with this arrangement, as there are no arguments about infrastructure : )