Gay fortson

A Presbyterian denomination that prides itself on freedom in nonessentials has found its cooperative ministry model strained by the latest discussion of human sexuality. Get the most recent headlines and stories from Christianity Today delivered to your inbox daily.

Please click here to see all our newsletters. Greg Johnson. The EPC was founded more than four decades ago by a group of fortson 20 churches concerned with liberal drift in the Northern Presbyterian Church then officially known gay the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Both fortson and egalitarians are welcome in the EPC, as are Presbyterians with differing views on charismatic practices.

A range of views on creation from young-earth creationism to theistic evolution and the Sabbath from strict Sabbatarianism to a more permissive take on the Sabbath also prevail in the EPC. So far, the arrangement has succeeded. Bythe EPC had grown to 77, members. Five years later, it jumped toLast year, it reportedmembers, making it the third-largest Presbyterian denomination in America, behind the mainline Presbyterian Church USA with just over 1 million members and gay more conservative PCA with nearlymembers.

Lebanon Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. It has yet to decide whether it will permit female elders. Yet as the two-year study on human sexuality proceeds, EPC observers are asking whether the denomination will continue to agree on what constitutes a nonessential. Bekah Mason. During floor debate at the General Assembly, an Ohio pastor said the sexuality study will not help the EPC advance its agendas of unity or doctrinal fidelity.

The question is whether a pastor can say of same-sex attraction, This is part of my experience, but I am living submitted to God. Burton, stated clerk of the New River Presbytery in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, is optimistic about the study, even though he opposes ordination of celibate homosexuals.

Get in Touch Today!

That was a little bit scary. Emily Belz. Daniel Burke, Religion News Service. Ronni Kurtz. How Ecclesiastes diagnoses our doomed quests for happiness. Ali Llewellyn and Nick Skytland. The development of artificial intelligence explained by experts in the field. Ashley Hales and Jared Boggess.

Stephen Carradini. How should Christians engage with artificial intelligence when people are doing what is right in their own eyes? Christine Caine.