In this video, Lloyd Lunceford answers the question: Can our church leave the denomination and also maintain possession of its property?
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Lloyd Lunceford Video #6 Can our church leave the denomination and also maintain possesion of our property–HD from Presbyterian Lay Committee on Vimeo.
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It raises a third question. “What about the souls of the people who choose to remain, for whatever reason.” I am thinking now of The Good Shepherd in LA, Korean. That article is fresh in my mind. The vote was nearly ten to one.
People think, “Oh, don’t worry about them. They’ll be rolling in money. Heck, PCUSA just nailed Good Shepherd for over 600 thousand.”
Sure, the dismissed church members were just relieved of everything they put in to build the church over all these years. To add insult to injury….
It’s ironic in a way. June marks the 800th anniversary of the “Magna Carta” or grand document. The 1st such document in the history of english speaking peoples that assert the rights of the individual and that of their property over kings, and the arbitrary power of the state, or its ruler. In essence the rule of law and due process, over the rule of the despot or a corrupt oligarchy.
The iron rule of history is that every power, ecclesiastical , secular, military, fascist, communist, dictatorship, pope, kings, a self-appointed elite, that tried to asset its power over that of the people and popular will, always ends up the trash dump of history.
The PCUSA at times is successful, at times not, in tying to deny freedom of association, assembly, and the natural law of the rights of property. But the end result is and will always be the same for them. Institutional death and consignment to irrelevancy.