Rev Bill

Noel Anderson at Andersonspeak is posting answers to points that people are making about why churches should leave the Presbyterian Church (USA). The first point he answers is the one that we should leave because we are ticked off. The second he answers is the one that we should leave because we can. The third reason he answers is that we should leave because we are afraid.

He now answers the fourth reason he sees folks giving — that Churches could attract new, younger people if they were not in the denomination. To this, he responds:

Frustrated with a lack of growth, evangelicals need someplace to assign the blame (other than ourselves, of course). The denomination is an easy target: a large, fat, dirty target with a bullseye as big as the side of a barn. It is only too easy to blame our local troubles on Louisville, GA, etc. The embarrassment is enough to make some churches pull the word “Presbyterian” off their name because (pick all that apply):

A. It is embarrassment by association.

B. Young people see the word and think: Beware! OLD!

C. Most people don’t know what it means or care.

D. Denominational loyalty is passé.

E. Denominational identity is largely irrelevant and otherwise ill-defined.

F. Denominations are relics of the Great Generation, like Lions or Shriners.

Go here to read his entire response to the “it will attract new, younger people” argument for leaving the PC (USA).

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