“[I]t feels as if there is a sense of helplessness within the evangelical community within the PC(USA). The old strategies do not seem to be holding us together”

Evangelicals in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) have banded together and committed themselves to hold to the biblical faith as their denomination continues to “stumble,” as they put it.

With the PC(USA) losing churches and conservatives beginning to feel like they have no voice or reason to stay in the denomination, remaining evangelicals have decided to support one another with the formation of the Biblical Presbyterian Network.

“[I]t feels as if there is a sense of helplessness within the evangelical community within the PC(USA). The old strategies do not seem to be holding us together and the vision for a renewed Presbyterian Church USA seems more faded than ever,” the network states.

“And yet, even our denomination fails, stumbles and so often impedes the work of God’s Spirit, we acknowledge that this reality does not change our calling to be faithful where we are.”

In recent years, dozens of churches have left the PC(USA), citing the denomination’s liberal direction on scriptural authority and homosexuality. Most recently in 2008, the General Assembly – the denomination’s highest governing body – approved a proposal to delete from its constitution a requirement that clergy live in “fidelity within the covenant of marriage between and a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness.”

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