RESOLUTION 74:06 Homosexuality and the PCUSA

For the fifth time in fifteen years the Presbyterian Church (USA) has voted in its 2010 General Assembly, among other detestable things, to remove the words “fidelity” (within the covenant of marriage of one man and one woman) and “chastity” (in singleness) from the Book of Order as requirements for ordination of officers. This on-going attempt to normalize homosexuality, which finds no support in Scripture, and to bring it in line with the culture of the day, continues to find broad-based support in the General Assembly and now awaits a vote from individual presbyteries. Proponents, who no longer affirm the full authority of Scripture, desire to modernize the church’s doctrines on sexuality, believing it to be a matter of fundamental justice.

We the members of the Bible Presbyterian Church General Synod, meeting at Grace Bible Presbyterian Church in Sharonville, Ohio, August 5-10, 2010, are grieved in spirit that the only authority of our faith and practice, the Holy Scriptures, continues not only to fall on deaf ears among so many in the PCUSA, but is held in outright disdain even among its leadership. We find no delight in decrying this continuing blatant act of apostasy (Acts 20:29-30; I Timothy 4:1-2; II Timothy 3:1-9) that unrelentingly eats away at this once faithful denomination. But with all humility of heart, we call upon those in the PCUSA who believe this to be a matter of fundamental righteousness, those who are born-again and love the Truth, to plead for God’s mercy and to leave that denomination in obedience to the Scriptures (II Corinthians 6:14-18).