Is Presbyterian Global Fellowship a response to the sexuality debates in the PC(USA)?
For three decades, sexuality has dominated the PC(USA)’s best thinking and drained many of its greatest resources. Our preoccupation with this issue has prevented us from embracing new and exciting ministry opportunities and distracted us from confronting other urgent social and spiritual issues. Presbyterian Global Fellowship seeks to break this cycle by maintaining heterosexual marriage as God’s design for human sexual expression, thus freeing us to engage again the central focus of the New Testament Church: its missional calling. Presbyterian Global Fellowship is also a reaction to PC(USA) structures that have failed to adapt to the emerging realities of our world. This is not a problem unique to the PC(USA). Fifty years ago, denominational offices were the primary source of resources for ministry in the local congregation: hymnals, curriculum, leadership training, mission and more. The funding of the development of those resources made sense. Today it is congregations that are deve
