An Edmond, Okla., church voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to cut ties with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America over the denomination’s liberal direction. Peace Lutheran joins hundreds of other congregations in withdrawing from the ELCA following the body’s vote in 2009 to let non-celibate gays and lesbians serve as clergy. In a 110-5 vote, Peace... Continue Reading

Despite a watermark change in ordination guidelines, a group of concerned Presbyterians are still hopeful that the denomination’s highest court will correctly settle a dispute seeking the nullification of a gay minister’s ordination. With its passage on May 10, an Amendment to the governing document will allow presbyteries within the Presbyterian Church (USA) to ordain... Continue Reading

“I can find no justification for this biblically, and it hurts. It deeply hurts, honestly. I think the result will be that the (national) church will split apart . . . Today the church has become impotent. Our views and values and beliefs are no longer different from the world. Secular life has merged with... Continue Reading

I do not see how we can approve of this report as it stands. I do not see how any man who voted “no” in the presbyteries could concur with a depiction of their decision process that makes reference to “cognitive dissonance,” a concept originally formulated to explain the irrational behavior of a UFO cult... Continue Reading

“New wine in old wineskins will burst the Church. People will leave the denomination because they want to live in Christ. Shifting deck chairs on the Titanic accomplishes nothing. Go and grow; remain and stay the same.” In the months since it first announced its presence in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Fellowship PCUSA has gone... Continue Reading

…church history is crystal clear: Homosexual practice has been affirmed nowhere, never, by no one in the history of Christianity. The church fathers insisted that doctrine and practice must be tested by Holy Scripture. On Tuesday May 10, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) joined a group of mainline churches that has opened the door to gay... Continue Reading

In a historic move, clergy from dozens of mainland Chinese house churches are petitioning China’s legislature to guarantee freedom of religion and to peacefully resolve the recent church-state conflict involving one of the largest house churches in the capital, ChinaAid learned on Sunday This is the first such move in 60 years of Communist rule... Continue Reading

The following letter was publically released through the website of the World Reformed Fellowship. The Aquila Report will seek to report on activities within the PCUSA with regard to this crisis in the denomination. [Editor’s note: the original URL (link) referenced is no longer valid, so the link has been removed.] Dear Brothers and Sisters in... Continue Reading

We in the Fellowship proclaim salvation in Christ alone, strive to live in obedience to Scripture alone, and go into the world for God’s glory alone. This past February The Aquila Report ran a story about a group of larger PC(USA) churches who were preparing for the possibility of the proposed change in the constitution... Continue Reading

“It’s also a $44 million kingdom asset that we have $41 million in equity in, and so we are not going to lightly walk away from that.” The biggest Presbyterian Church in Orlando and one of the largest in the country could soon become a very different place. The church’s national affiliation has agreed to... Continue Reading