Now we know

Now we know why the presiding bishop was unwilling to talk about the membership statistics when questioned by reporters recently. The decline in 2008 was sharper than in any year since 2004. From 2004 to 2007, pecusa was losing 2% of members per year. It was 3% for 2008. Income to parishes was also down for the first time since 2004. This was as we expected, but pecusa leadership continues to believe or pretends to believe that they can turn things around with their inclusivity gospel.

Susan Russell, the president of the pecusa gay lobby Integrity, said at General Convention that the numbers will go up once the homosexuality issue is settled. Integrity told us that they got all that they wanted at GC09. So, we can expect the numbers for 2009 and 2010 to head up.

Except that even the biblically illiterate understand that pecusa is promoting immorality. The secularists that agree with pecusa's direction don't want a church and the regular, sensible people know that pecusa has fallen off the tracks. Where's the growth going to come from? The truth is obvious - it isn't coming.

In New Hampshire, the epicenter of the debate since 2003 the pecusa decline has been huge. In the Diocese of Newark, which under Bishop Spong was an early proponent of homosexual immorality, the decline has been huge. Newark has established a task force to look into what they can do to stem the tide. Here's a thought, why not try The Real Gospel? That's a proposal I'm not anticipating will come out of any task force in the Diocese of Newark.

With her promotion of immorality and heresy pecusa has signed her own death warrant. We knew all this before pecusa released the figures for 2008. Now we really know.