Author: Plumb Line
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National Leadership Team
Offers Response to PresbyteryAs reported previously in the Plumb Line, New River Presbytery (NRP) wrote a letter to the National Leadership Team (NLT) in August 2024 seeking reconciliation after the prejudicial handling by leaders of the EPC of the NRP’s unanimously passed overture. The NLT met with representatives of the NRP in January 2025 and respectfully listened to…
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Interim Committee
on SSA and Ordination
Reports to the 45th
General AssemblyIn response to the host of overtures before the 44th General Assembly asking whether admitting gay minister Greg Johnson to the EPC is biblically defensible, the 44th General Assembly appointed an Ad Interim Committee to study Scripture and the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms on related questions. The committee was charged to bring clarity…
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Note from the Plumb Line Editors
In the sermon on the Mount, Jesus issues a stern warning: “Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly, they are ferocious wolves.” The problem with false teachers is they don’t look like wolves: they appear harmless and friendly. Outwardly, they look like sheep and mimic the vocabulary of sheep.…
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Pennsylvania Church Withdraws from the EPC
After a contentious two-year battle that ended with its pastor and Session removed from office by the Presbytery of the Alleghenies, Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pa., voted in January to dissolve its relationship with the EPC.
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Ohio Church Votes to Leave EPC
Frustrated by the failure of the Presbytery of the Alleghenies and the General Assembly to vote on an overture forbidding the ordination of homosexuals, a church in Mansfield, Ohio, voted in November to leave the EPC.
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Georgia Church Joins EPC
First Presbyterian Church of Bainbridge, Ga., was received by the Presbytery of the Southeast at its January 2025 stated meeting. Bainbridge is in southwest Georgia, 40 miles north of Tallahassee, Fla. The church was chartered in 1852 by the Presbytery of Florida in the old Southern Presbyterian Church.
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EPC Teaching, Ruling Elders Meet to Discuss Differences in EPC Direction
On January 22, 2025, EPC Teaching Elders Mike Moses, Matt Blazer, and Mark Toon met with fellow TEs Nate Atwood, Rufus Burton, Don Fortson, and Ruling Elder Gordon Miller, at Lake Forest Church in Huntersville, N.C. At the conclusion of the meeting, the Elders agreed in principle on a statement of understanding.
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Presbytery Shares Complaints with National Leadership Team
Responding to a letter of complaint, the EPC National Leadership Team met in Orlando January 14 with representatives of New River Presbytery (NRP) to hear concerns about the “distrust and division” caused by the 44th General Assembly.
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Note from the Plumb Line Editors
Since launching our first issue in November, the Plumb Line has attracted more than 6,000 visitors and nearly 16,000 views from all over the world. We are grateful to all of you who took time to check us out. Our desire is to build up the church by better informing our elders with news and…
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Michigan Church Votes to Exit EPC
Concerned by “theological progressive leaning” within the EPC, one of the largest churches in Midwest Presbytery voted in June to leave the denomination. First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, Mich., has since voted to affiliate with the Presbyterian Church in America. In a statement submitted to the Stated Clerk of Midwest Presbytery, the 500-member church expressed…