[CS-FSLUG] OT: PC(USA) okay with 'gay' clergy

[Timothy Butler]

On May 12, 2011, at 10:42 PM, "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:

> True. However, it's my experience, limited as that might be, that once correction has been attempted.....multiple times and rejected, it's clear that getting back to Biblical dictates isn't going to happen. For me, the course then is most clear. 

I think I would mostly agree. But, if I were in a sound congregation in the PC(USA), I would probably have a hard time leaving over a denominational thing. Given the "local option" system of this change, some whole presbyteries may refuse to go with the flow... 


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>> On the whole, I know I'd rather be in the PC(USA) any day over my old church, whose abuses have been publicized somewhat, but the ("good denomination") E-Free ignores.
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> Not knowing what that church is, I can't comment.

The Evanglical Free Church is the denomination that Trinity Evangelical Divinity School belongs to and to which Chuck Swindoll is a member. I was in it for about ten years after the church I was a member of left the UCC and joined it. It is a conservative, highly congregational denomination. Notably, it dots all the right i's theologically, so it gets a pass. Similar, I suppose, to Sovereign Grace Ministries, which has a very ominous cloud of abuse most folks ignore.

I am happily out of the E-Free for theological reasons, in addition to the others. I am much better suited to the Presbyterian world where I basically belonged.

Tim