Tipping Point with Jimmy Evans
Jul 8, 2026 · 41 min · 9 segments
On today's episode of the Tipping Point Show, Jimmy Evans covers major stories shaking the church and the world. The Presbyterian Church USA is moving to eliminate monogamy requirements for ordained…
But right now, I want to begin with some unbelievable articles about what's happening in two denominations, and also related to Israel.
The title, PCUSA Votes, Clergy Monogamy Overture Out of Order, refers for further study, moral chaos.
A committee of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA recently voted that a controversial overture to mandate monogamy among ordained clergy is out of order, but referred it to further study.
Con 10, formerly OVT 044, entitled On Requiring Ministers of Word and Sacrament to Be Monogamous, was referred last Wednesday by a vote of 45 to 12, of the PCUSA's Constitutional Interpretation Committee to the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy, according to Presbyterian Outlook.
Contents sought to amend the denomination's book of order to require clergy in any relationship of a sexual nature to be living in a monogamous one The Constitutional Interpretation Committee did not vote for or against CONTEND, but deemed that it did not meet procedural standards for a constitutional amendment or authoritative interpretation.
My neighbor for many years was Presbyterian PCUSA and he was very conservative and he and his church left the PCUSA back in 2011 when they decided to ordain gays.
And so a lot of great Presbyterian churches, a lot of great Presbyterian people, but the PCUSA is ultra liberal.
Now this overture, to withdraw the requirements for monogamy is actually being led by a conservative group, a young Gen Z conservative group of Presbyterians.
And let me read you, and so it's a good thing that there are some conservatives in there trying to reform the PCUSA.
And what this young group of people, they're saying is too long, Have we allowed schism in the Presbyterian Church? In other words, the conservatives leave and the liberals take over what's left of the PCUSA.
And they do want all of the barriers to monogamy lifted and for there to be no requirements of ordained clergy.
They're saying you can live in any sexual state that you want and there are no sexual requirements.
But right now, I want to begin with some unbelievable articles about what's happening in two denominations, and also related to Israel.
The title, PCUSA Votes, Clergy Monogamy Overture Out of Order, refers for further study, moral chaos.
A committee of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA recently voted that a controversial overture to mandate monogamy among ordained clergy is out of order, but referred it to further study.
Con 10, formerly OVT 044, entitled On Requiring Ministers of Word and Sacrament to Be Monogamous, was referred last Wednesday by a vote of 45 to 12, of the PCUSA's Constitutional Interpretation Committee to the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy, according to Presbyterian Outlook.
Contents sought to amend the denomination's book of order to require clergy in any relationship of a sexual nature to be living in a monogamous one The Constitutional Interpretation Committee did not vote for or against CONTEND, but deemed that it did not meet procedural standards for a constitutional amendment or authoritative interpretation.
My neighbor for many years was Presbyterian PCUSA and he was very conservative and he and his church left the PCUSA back in 2011 when they decided to ordain gays.
And so a lot of great Presbyterian churches, a lot of great Presbyterian people, but the PCUSA is ultra liberal.
Now this overture, to withdraw the requirements for monogamy is actually being led by a conservative group, a young Gen Z conservative group of Presbyterians.
And let me read you, and so it's a good thing that there are some conservatives in there trying to reform the PCUSA.
And what this young group of people, they're saying is too long, Have we allowed schism in the Presbyterian Church? In other words, the conservatives leave and the liberals take over what's left of the PCUSA.
And they do want all of the barriers to monogamy lifted and for there to be no requirements of ordained clergy.
They're saying you can live in any sexual state that you want and there are no sexual requirements.
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