The Church
What's next?

Now that the Presbyterian Church (USA) is a "local option" church on ordination issues essentially changing their government to a congregational form, what is next? Lots of opinions being thrown about. Get Religion www.getreligion.com has a great entry on 24 June concerning the fate of mainline churches. They ask 3 questions that gives insight to where a church is headed:

1.Did the resurrection of Jesus Christ really happen?
2.Is salvation through Christ alone? [A matter tabled by the ECUSA.]
3.Are sexual relations outside of marriage a sin?

tmatt, the author of the article comments on those three questions:

"Want to find out who is a true liberal and who is a waffling conservative? Who is a person who worships the institutional church and its pension fund? Want to see the full scope of “local option”? Ask those three questions. I have asked those questions in press conferences and seen bishops simply refuse to answer."

Boy, good questions for discerning where each of us and or churches stand in the swift moving currents of today's ecclesiastical changes.