EMU Continues to Bury Its Head in the Sand

The Uniting Church in Australia's triennial Assembly once again refused to change its anti-biblical path of allowing the ordination of practising homosexuals into ministry.

You would think that the dissenting voice in the church, Evangelical Members of the Uniting Church or EMU would have finally come to their senses and staged a co-ordinated walk out of the denomination, as they have threatened to do in the past.

Instead they have come up with, yet another dissenting body, The Assembly of Confessing Congregations. This Assembly, while a part of the UCA will offer parallel teaching and mission resources. They will also provide a way for Confessing Ministry Workers to be linked with Confessing Congregations.

My friend Steve Estherby who heads up EMU said this: "This action has been necessary because of the refusal of the National Assembly to affirm the traditional teaching and practice of the Uniting Church, For us, the Assembly of Confessing Congregations represents the hope of a new beginning and a way in which we can remain associated with the UCA with integrity."

I'm sorry Steve, but it's clear that you and your friends still don't get it. You lost, they won. The UCA will ordain gay ministers and there is nothing you can do about it.

The only way forward with integrity is to leave the UCA. This is just continuing the deception that you can remain in a denomination that has abandoned all pretence of obedience to scripture and is pursuing a path of secular humanism.

Let me state this clearly. No person who claims to be evangelical can remain any longer in the UCA.

To remain is actually a form of idolatry that says "My belonging to a man-made organisation is more important to me than being faithful to God."

The UCA, as long as it turns its back on God's word, will continue to decline and wither away.