Calvinbeza
Puritan Board Freshman
Are there some former PC(USA) churches that joined the Presbyterian Church in America(PCA) instead of ECO or EPC. Which are these? Do you know any?
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May I ask which churches went to the PCA? I would think even they would be too conservative for them. Was their suspicion when they asked to join the denomination?The web site of the renewal group, Layman.org is probably the best place to find out about such things.
Most of the churches that have left the PC(USA) have gone to the EPC or the more recently formed ECO. Only a relative few have gone to the PCA.
21 left in 2011, 110 in 2012, and 148 in 2013. Overall, the PC(USA) lost more than 102,000 members just in 2012 alone. "The PC(USA) now reports 1.84 million members, less than half of its peak membership of 4.25 million members in 1965 and down from 1.95 million members in 2011." [as per a 9/20/13 report]
From that web site:
An Excel worksheet showing churches leaving the PC(USA):
Churches leaving the PCUSA - The Layman Online
[NOTE: I don't see that this is currently a working link. When it was working, it provided a fairly comprehensive overview of all the churches that have left in the last several years.]
Door may be closing for churches seeking dismissal:
Door may be closing for churches seeking dismissal from PCUSA - The Layman Online
Differences between the PCA and the PC(USA):
https://biblebased.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/13-differences-between-the-pca-and-the-pcusa/
Comparison of PC(USA), ECO, and EPC:
http://www.layman.org/wp-content/up...iefs-and-viewpoints-PCUSA-ECO-EPC-updated.pdf
Are there some former PC(USA) churches that joined the Presbyterian Church in America(PCA) instead of ECO or EPC. Which are these? Do you know any?
Park Cities PC, Dallas, TX, 10/25/91
Can't find its history tonight, but I think Cedar Springs Knoxville came out of the PCUS to the PCA before moving on to the EPC.One of those churches listed which went to the PCA is now in the EPC. I wonder if that's happened with any others.
But PCA is plating new churches, and PCA growth
Since 1936, I don't believe a single mainline church has ever joined the OPC.
"You can't split rotten wood." B.B. Warfield on his deadbed, to J.G. Machen.