The Westminster Confession of Faith 24-1, The Larger Catechism 137-139, and The Shorter Catechism 70-72 explain our Church’s understanding regarding marriage, particularly in reference to the Seventh Commandment, “You shall not commit adultery.” For additional information follow this link: http://pcaac.org/WCF.htm.

Before the roll call vote, Bishop Duncan Gray of Mississippi pleaded with his brothers and sisters in the House of Bishops for an air of humility. "I know this will pass," he prophesied. "Can we walk beyond this vote with a sense of humility and less of a triumphant way?"

Bishop Mark Lawrence of South Carolina spoke against the resolution arguing that marriage (between a man and a woman) is the only given in creation. [Transgenderism] is an idol that will break us. The whole range of transgenderism goes contrary to the gay and lesbian debate. We are abandoning all forms of givenness."

If the Synod agrees to adjourn the debate, it will be sent back to the current bishops to "reconsider" the changes they imposed in May, which would have allowed traditionalist parishes to opt out of the authority of a woman bishop and being given a male alternative who shared their doctrine.

This resolution represents the continued dumbing down of the church's ecclesiastical standards for entry in order to appeal to a wider audience who will never darken the doors of an Episcopal Church. Bishops, deputies, visitors, youth observers and committee members wrestled over whether what should come first; baptism or communion.

Link almost all of these with their more conservative acronymic partners, that is, RCA/CRC, ELCA/LCMS, PCUSA/PCA and so on, and you will find the word "decline" easily.

Describing his departure from the Kirk as “heartbreaking”, Mr MacDonald said the Kirk had become “inhospitable to evangelical belief” and that its “radically liberal stance” would be unappealing to new ministers and result in a “haemorrhaging” of evangelical members.

As IRD President Mark Tooley has written, “we eagerly await our inquisitors.”   Amid scores of resolutions submitted to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, the Stewardship and Development Committee has been asked by the Diocese of New York to launch an investigation of the Institute on Religion and Democracy. Resolution C114 instructs General... Continue Reading

In daily life, healthy division is unavoidable. Theological disagreement need not be divisive, need not entail unhealthy division, and need not result in disunity. To preserve unity will require focused effort on the part of all parties in this discussion. May God help us to keep in step with the Holy Spirit who is our source of unity.

A new row over an amendment to legislation on women bishops could see the measure fail to win the final vote of approval at the York General Synod