If accepted, Rev Macleod and Rev MacRae will bring the total number of former Church of Scotland ministers who have joined the Free Church to ten….Their respective resignations mean that the Church of Scotland has only one active full-time parish minister covering Assynt, Wester Ross, Skye, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and Harris – an area which is bigger than the size of Wales.
THE Church of Scotland has lost a further two ministers in an ongoing row over gay clergy.
Wester Ross preachers 40-year-old Rev David Macleod from Lochcarron and 44-year-old Rev Roddy MacRae from Glenelg and Kintail have both announced their resignations.
They have now applied to join the Free Church of Scotland.
If accepted, Rev Macleod and Rev MacRae will bring the total number of former Church of Scotland ministers who have joined the Free Church to ten.
Both departing ministers expressed grave concern over the Church of Scotland’s continuing drift from the Bible.
Their respective resignations mean that the Church of Scotland has only one active full-time parish minister covering Assynt, Wester Ross, Skye, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and Harris – an area which is bigger than the size of Wales.
Rev Macleod said: “Over the past few years I have found myself to be theologically less and less aligned with the Church of Scotland.
“I find myself now to have more in common with other denominations. The decision to demit has not been a decision I have rushed or taken lightly.
“I say this with a heavy heart and with much grief but I do not believe that I can continue in the context in which I find myself.”
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