D. James Kennedy’s funeral service is live on CBN right now. It started at 1 PM EST and will end at 3 PM. You can tune in here and watch the remainder of the service.
Update: If you missed it live, it will show again at 4 PM.
Just shortly after the announcement that D. James Kennedy (Wikipedia) had officially retired from his position as senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida—a position that he held for more than 48 years—comes the announcement that he has gone home to be with the Lord at the age of 76.
Dr. D. James Kennedy (Wikipedia) has officially retired from his position as senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, a PCA church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He started the church on June 21, 1959 and has been the senior pastor for 48 years.
Kennedy preached his last sermon on Christmas Eve of 2006, only days before his heart attack. He has not been back in the pulpit since.
His replacement has not yet been chosen, but the process is underway and “is expected to take between one and two years.”
As the PC(USA) continues its decline, many theologically conservative evangelical churches are pondering breaking away. In response the denomination has written a letter to the churches, appealing to them to stay.
At least eight churches have left since a Presbyterian General Assembly last summer, which voted to give leeway to install practicing homosexuals as clergy and allowed church officials to propose experimental phrasings for the divine Trinity in place of “Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”
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The New Wineskins Association of Churches, which represents Presbyterian traditionalists, is developing a breakaway strategy. Departing congregations could join the Evangelical Presbyterian Church, a theologically conservative group independent of the Louisville-based denomination.
Some Presbyterian churches in the PC(USA) are discontent with their current hierarchical governmental structure—a model of church government that many believe no longer works in our postmodern generation. At a recent meeting, there was unanimous agreement that change is necessary. PC(USA) churches now have the option of joining a new presbytery, New Wineskins Presbytery, which will be under the EPC.
The New Wineskins Presbytery would run under a newly designed constitution based on a grassroots polity. . . . The new polity recognizes the local congregation as the primary decision-making group. And it sends resources to the congregation rather than drain away from.
D. James Kennedy’s funeral service is live on CBN right now. It started at 1 PM EST and will end at 3 PM. You can tune in here and watch the remainder of the service.
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