Subject: Re: If You’re A Nurse Obsrucing Law Enforcement

I’m retired and have allowed myself to adopt the persona of a grouchy old man- at least here!

But beyond that, I use language appropriate for speaking with fascists. It’s not just me; America is starting to ask: “who the fuck do these assholes think they are?”

No, not by a long shot, what filth flows from your mouth today is one and the same while you were
a Street Apple preacher preaching from the pulpit.

The Presbyterian Church has bled thousands of members in recent years.

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Presbyterian Church (USA) Ends 200-Year Mission Legacy Amid Membership Decline

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has closed its mission agency, laying off nearly all missionaries and ending a centuries-old tradition of global gospel outreach. Find out what’s behind the sweeping change.

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has shuttered its international mission arm and terminated 54 of its 60 remaining missionaries, effectively bringing to an end a 200-year-old missionary legacy that sent hundreds of Christian workers across the globe with the gospel.

Late last month, the Presbyterian Mission Agency officially merged with the Office of the General Assembly into a newly formed Interim Unified Agency, leading to the closure of Presbyterian World Mission and the layoff of most remaining mission “co-workers.”

“We’re witnessing the slow dismantling of one of our church’s most defining ministries,” said Karla Ann Koll, a former missionary to Costa Rica who now continues serving there in a seminary role.

Koll’s sentiment has been echoed across PCUSA circles, as both missionaries and regional leaders reflect on what they see as a sobering and regrettable moment in the church’s history.

Mission funding dropped from $16 million in 2000 to $6 million in 2023, paralleling a steady decline in PCUSA membership, according to denominational reports.

“The economics of it were just not sustainable,” said Rev Jay Wilkins, stated clerk of the Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley in Alabama. He added that ongoing security and financial risks — especially in areas like the Congo — made maintaining overseas staff increasingly difficult.

Over recent decades, the PCUSA has become increasingly progressive, beginning with the inclusion of openly LGBT clergy in 2011 and the recognition of same-sex marriage in 2015. The denomination has also embraced progressive social justice causes and adopted controversial anti-Israel stances, such as labelling Israel an apartheid state.

The denomination has seen its membership drop from 3.1 million in 1983 to 1.09 million in 2023 — a 65% decline — driven by doctrinal compromise, an aging demographic, and congregations opting out to join more biblically faithful denominations.

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“In addition to the watering down of the gospel, the Presbyterian Church (USA) is now an open advocate of homosexuality and gay marriage. In 2011 the general assembly began allowing the ordination of homosexual clergy. In 2014, they changed the definition of marriage in the Book of Order from the union of “a man and a woman” to “two people.” In 2015 the denomination conducted a joint ordination of a “married” lesbian couple.

The Presbyterian Church (USA) is committed to ecumenism: at the June 2016 General Assembly in Portland, Oregon, a Muslim offered a prayer to Allah during the opening plenary session. The Presbyterian Church (USA) also takes a liberal stand on abortion, stating that “the considered decision of a woman to terminate a pregnancy can be a morally acceptable, though certainly not the only or required, decision” (from “What We Believe: Abortion Issues,” www.presbyterianmission.org/blog/abortion-issues-2/, accessed 9/1/2016).

Recently, the Presbyterian Church (USA) has seen a decline in membership as hundreds of its churches have left the denomination in protest over the theological and social liberalism overrunning the church. According to the Presbyterian Lay Committee, from 2005 through 2014, the Presbyterian Church (USA) has lost about 700,000 members (www.layman.org/pcusa-continues-membership-decline-92433-members-gone-in-2014/, accessed 9/1/2016).

The world may applaud the Presbyterian Church (USA) for its diversity, progressivism, and open-mindedness. But Christians would do well to remember that we are not here to be applauded by the world. We’re here to be salt and light (Matthew 5:13–16) and “to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people” (Jude 1:3).

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And WOKE ministers are to blame for the same reason the Presbyterian Church I attended closed its
doors.