Indeed, the reference in Acts 15:22 to “the apostles and the elders, with the whole church” suggests that leaders from various congregations came together in the Jerusalem Council to make decisions for the wider body. This is the heartbeat of Presbyterian polity and reason to think “church” can mean in effect, “a subset of leaders who represent the whole.”

For that reason, we have disassociated ourselves from the Episcopal Church and will meet again in Convention on November 17th to consider further responses to these actions by the denomination we helped found. By God's grace, we look forward to many more generations freely exercising the faith first brought to these shores so many generations before us.

The Presiding Bishop called Bishop Mark Lawrence and, speaking directly with him, informed him of the action of the Disciplinary Board. She also informed him that, effective noon of that day, the exercise of his ministry was restricted. Therefore, under the canon, he is not permitted to perform any acts as an ordained person.   ... Continue Reading

Under Lawrence’s leadership, the South Carolina diocese has legally and theologically distanced itself from the Episcopal Church, removing references to the national church in civil and church documents and issuing deeds that release the diocese’s and denomination’s claims to parish property.     The Diocese of South Carolina announced on Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it... Continue Reading

The problem was that the representatives from the presbytery framed the meetings “by the presbytery’s premise that the PWNC owned our building and we simply held it in trust for them. … We stated clearly to the group that we believed we owned our building and in that light we were very willing to discuss... Continue Reading

The church voted to make the jump last week, charting a new course for a congregation that has long been divided by personal and theological conflicts. “I think it’s the right move in light of what’s going on in the larger denomination,” said Pastor Tony Winterowd.     The possibility has been simmering for years,... Continue Reading

We wanted something that could help visualize the fact that God is doing this through all of us together,” Senior Pastor Jim Alexander told congregants before guiding the plow in dress shoes and a suit. “This is about God’s glory … walking together in one direction, pulling together in one direction.”     Dust flew... Continue Reading

In Zambia, and in Africa at large, evangelical leaders who have worked their way up the ecclesiastical ladder are holding hands with religious fraudsters and thus they cannot speak about this engulfing evil. They would rather throw stones at political leaders out there than address the Trojan horse within evangelicalism. They would rather tell the... Continue Reading

"Someone told me I was sitting where their family sits. That really ticked me off. I didn't see a reserved sign there. If I was not getting paid to do this, I would have said a few words to them and walked out of the service before it ever began."

The legal test case will set the scene for what could be one of the largest land and property wrangles in Scotland, as evangelical congregations prepare to challenge the Church of Scotland's stance on gay ordination at the next General Assembly.