An article by David Roach in Christianity Today, dated 11 July 2024, reporting the Evangelical Presbyterian Church's General Assembly debating whether to admit a congregation whose pastor identifies as homosexual but professes celibacy and a traditional Christian sexual ethic; rather than resolve the question, the Assembly voted for a two-year study, running through 2026, on the contemporary usage of sexual self-conception language and how it comports with Scripture and the Westminster Standards, in what a denominational historian quoted in the piece called the most contentious Assembly he had witnessed.
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A long-established evangelical journalism outlet, independent of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, reporting directly on its General Assembly floor debate. NotesCited for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church's reading within the Presbyterianism sexuality-position synthesis, corroborating EPConnection and showing the question remains internally unresolved.
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PublisherChristianity Today
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://www.christianitytoday.com/2024/07/evangelical-presbyterian-church-epc-general-assembly-sexual/
Source Typejournalism
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