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Florida elder never wanted to start ‘the last great battle’ in the PC(USA)

When Norman Blessing retired and moved to Florida about four years ago, he joined First church in Sebastian because it was the closest Presbyterian church around. He had no intention of launching what one observer has characterized, in a letter posted on the Internet, as "the last great battle" of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).


But the Sebastian case, as it's being called, has quickly turned into a firestorm — inciting passion and rhetoric, causing people to read all kinds of implications into what's happened there.

Some in the Confessing Church Movement are appalled, saying that congregations should have the right to insist that the people they ordain will affirm bedrock statements of faith...

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