The Great Commission can only be fulfilled by church planting. As neither the Old nor New Testaments know anything of mere private religion, there is no other way. It is not enough for people to hear the Gospel, or even to receive Christ as Lord and Saviour; they must be grafted into the Church –... Continue Reading

[PHS director] told the assembly of executive presbyters, presbytery stated clerks, committee on ministry chairs and members of presbytery response teams that “gracious separation policies are a wise, prudent approach and are a step in the direction of reconciliations. They don’t guarantee it, but they do preserve the possibility.” Fred Heuser, director of the Presbyterian... Continue Reading

“The court should not compel persons to give money to a religious institution. Clearly, the overwhelming number of donations to these parishes since 2003 were specifically restricted by donors not to go to either The Episcopal Church or the Diocese of Virginia.” A month after a Virginia judge ruled against seven congregations leaving The Episcopal... Continue Reading

“The city can’t single out religious expression and treat it worse than the expression of everybody else,” said ADF senior counsel Jordan Lorence. “The court’s order allows churches and other religious groups to meet in empty school buildings on weekends just as non-religious groups do while the lawsuit proceeds. A federal judge handed New York... Continue Reading

“I am writing this paper to ask a question of our presbytery and by extension our denomination. The question is ‘If I am biblically persuaded that women can serve as deacons in the church, am I outside the bounds of PCA polity presently or in the foreseeable future?’” At its February 17, 2012 stated meeting,... Continue Reading

Erskine College said it wants to keep dialogue with the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church open, its President David Norman said. The school released another news release Wednesday to expand on a previous news release that said the school’s board of trustees voted last week to not alter its charter or by... Continue Reading

“I am writing this paper to ask a question of our presbytery and by extension our denomination. The question is ‘If I am biblically persuaded that women can serve as deacons in the church, am I outside the bounds of PCA polity presently or in the foreseeable future?’” theaquilareport.com/files/Wheatley on Women Deacons in PCA.pdf [Editor’s... Continue Reading

Legal observers have noted that the tiny congregation’s victory may go down as a landmark decision in church-property law. The decision states that the PCUSA trust clause is not enforceable unless it complies with state trust law requirements and that any former PCUS churches that had claimed the exception clause in a timely manner has... Continue Reading

“The appropriate way to redefine marriage and permissible practice within the PCUSA is not through individual reinterpretation of the advice of the larger church, but by means of an amendment to the Constitution approved by the General Assembly and ratified by the presbyteries of the church” The Presbyterian Church (USA)’s highest court declared that one... Continue Reading

As previously reported on The Aquila Report, two PCA presbyteries have overtured the 2012 General Assembly on the topic of Adam and Eve. Savannah River Presbytery asks for affirmation of the following statements: “That Adam and Eve were created, body and soul, by immediate acts of Almighty power…” “That Adam’s body was directly fashioned by... Continue Reading