The Louisville Courier-Journal reports:
No hope of reopening the Presbyterian Community Center in Smoketown
Any hope of reopening the shuttered Presbyterian Community Center — an institution for 115 years in Smoketown — appears to be dashed.
The board of the nonprofit center at 701 S. Hancock St. — which abruptly suspended operations in late August because of financial problems — has decided to shut it down for good at the end of next month, and the property will be sold.
The related Presbyterian Child Development Center, which had continued to operate in an adjacent building at 630 Finzer St., also will close and that building will be sold.
“We don’t want to close it, but we don’t really have any choice,” Grover Potts, the center’s board president, said Wednesday.
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Wait until the mass exodus of churches begins after the 2014 General Assembly, which will probably approve same-sex marriages and maybe even require PCUSA ministers to conduct them! The PCUSA haven of liberalism in Louisville is going to find itself hit by a financial bomb in the months that follow. The funds will begin to dry up, and millions of God’s children will have been denied the truth of God’s Word. It may be that the entire PCUSA complex in Louisville may have to close. I hope so. It is no longer beacon of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but a nest of liberal, left-wing ministers, administrators, and workers who have been promoting a gospel that is not that which we have been handed down through the centuries. How sad!
While I agree there will be some increase in the rate of membership loss if a same-sex marriage measure is passed, I’m not sure it will be as big as some predict. At some point, the PCUSA will reach an equilibrium, with remaining membership being made up of “progressives” who will finally have the church they want, and non-progressives who refuse to leave for one reason or another (maybe they don’t want to leave the congregation they’ve always belonged to; maybe they’re stubborn; maybe they stay out of sheer inertia). And I wonder if we might already be nearing that equilibrium point.