“Giving up your building for Lent will be a powerful message to send to PCUSA,” McClellan said. “In addition, church members may want to resolve to not enter any PCUSA affiliated church until that church has requested dismissal or is in the process of doing so.”

A group of Presbyterians wants to take a message of protest against its denomination out of the pews and into the street.

Parking Lot Presbyterians (PLP) is encouraging churches to hold a worship service in their respective parking lots on March 25 to show “support for faithful congregations and members wishing to leave [the Presbyterian Church (USA), but] are being persecuted by them.”

“Today’s faithful Presbyterians are having their buildings held hostage by the heretical PCUSA denomination,” group organizer Tad McClellan said.

“In an effort to force its members to stay in the denomination despite its abandonment of sound theology and willful disregard for the confessions of the church; the PCUSA in many areas is threatening to take over the buildings of churches wishing to leave the denomination,” he added.

According to PLP’s Facebook page, the group is encouraging churches to protest church property seizures in one of three ways.

The group suggests that churches which have already left the denomination or are in the process of leaving should “create a Parking Lot Presbyterians worship service on March 25 … in the church parking lot in support and prayer for faithful congregations under malicious attack by the PCUSA.”

PLP also recommends that “churches [that] are being attacked by the PCUSA in retaliation for leaving the denomination may want to consider giving up the building altogether and having worship in the parking lot for Lent.”

“This would demonstrate to [the] PCUSA that they are welcome to the building but they will not corrupt the soul of a faithful church,” McClellan said.

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