Unhappy with theological drifts by the Presbyterian Church (USA), First Presbyterian Church in Amarillo has voted to disaffiliate from the national church organization and the presbytery.
“The national church, from our perspective, seems to be moving more towards the standards of culture and further away from the clear consistent teaching of the Bible,” said the Rev. Howard Griffin, church pastor of First Presbyterian Church. “The Presbyterian denomination was born out of the Reformation, where one of the principle cries was ‘Sola Scriptura’ — scripture alone is our authority in faith and life.”
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