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“The study confirms that the issues dividing the PCUSA are theological. There is not a shared understanding of what it means to be theologically Reformed nor what it looks like to live, individually or institutionally, submitted to the authority of God as revealed in the Bible”

Discussion

Mon, 05/09/16

Locally here in the Mpls./St. Paul area, Hope Presbyterian Church in Richfield, MN left the PCUSA in 2014 and joined ECO, a relatively new Presbyterian group:

http://hope-pc.org/denomination/

Even more recently, Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, MN (the largest Presbyterian church in Minnesota) also left the PCUSA and joined ECO:

http://www.cpconline.org/who-we-are/

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About ECO:

http://eco-pres.org/

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Leaving the PCUSA is neither easy nor cheap. The process can take two years or more.

Hope Presbyterian (see above), a church with around 1,200 members, ended up making a final separation payment to the PCUSA of over $1.2 MM dollars (and also had to turn over some property):

http://www.christianpost.com/news/minnesota-church-must-pay-pcusa-over-1-2-million-to-leave-denomination-124437/

Christ Presbyterian (see above), with about 5,300 members, presumably had to pay a proportionally much higher amount.

Tue, 05/10/16

This is really wonderful news. Writing as someone who left the United Methodists when I came to Christ, the Scriptures just open up to you when you’re finally seeing them outside of the mainline liberalism filter. Pray that these people will be open to the movement of God’s spirit in this.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.