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The Independent Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian Church in America megachurch in Memphis, Tennessee, with over 2,000 members.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ministry Job Positions )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Presbyterian Church in America : Church Directory )〕 == History == In the 1950s the black freedom struggle more generally, are the kneel-ins that students and activists staged across the South in an effort to desegregate Christian places of worship, included the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) and the Presbyterian-affiliated Southwestern College (later Rhodes College), from which a large number of kneel-in students came. During 1964 and 1965, kneel-in activism elsewhere in the South in cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Albany, Houston and Tallahassee inspired some college students from various local schools to attempt to integrate Memphis’s congregations. The legendary civil rights activist James Lawson, Jr. trained the students, and local luminaries Vasco and Maxine Smith offered support; but the desegregation efforts were not entirely successful. Battle lines were quickly drawn with race, religion, politics, and faith firmly at the center. Students faced some of the staunchest resistance at Second Presbyterian Church. Church deacons standing guard rebuffed them at the door, but the students considered their activism an act of worship and a visible testimony to true Christian unity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Memphis Kneel-ins and the Desegregation of the Southern Church – By Phillip Luke Sinitiere )〕 - Adopted from the article The Memphis Kneel-ins and the Desegregation of the Southern Church – By Phillip Luke Sinitiere Independent Presbyterian Church(IPC) was founded in March 14, 1965 by a dissenter group from the Second Presbyterian Church to protest against racial integration, racial segregation and in resistance to unbiblical involvement of the Presbyterian Church in the United States in social issues in ways that weakened the church’s core calling to evangelism and discipleship. The Southern Presbyterian Church was struggling in that time with racial integration during the mid-1960s in general. What is additionally helpful in the narrative is the observation that for these white churches, the only thing feared more than racial integration was interracial marriage. Miscegenation was to be avoided at all cost and would serve as the catalyst for racial tension decades later. In March 1965, right after SPC voted to embrace racial integration, over 340 people, including ruling elders left SPC to form IPC. Because of this history, IPC has had challenges building unity with the black community in Memphis. The group met in a theatre building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Last Segregated Hour: The Memphis Kneel-Ins and the Campaign for ... )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Journal of Presbyterian History - Is Christ Divided? )〕 IPC has publicly confessed the sins of their fathers, sought forgiveness, and is actively working toward racial reconciliation and racial solidarity. IPC has successfully pursued several racial reconciliation initiatives with the black community in Memphis. In 2000 the church joined the Presbyterian Church in America, since then it is a flagship PCA church in the Memphis area. IPC is the only church in the PCA that has ever taken the courageous step to confess and repent of the sins of their own local church forefathers. IPC serves as a model of racial reconciliation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Undoing the Damage of Sunday Morning Segregation )〕 - Adopted from the article of Undoing the Damage of Sunday Morning Segregation by Anthony B. Bradley, Nov. 20 2012. IPC is currently searching for a senior pastor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Independent Presbyterian Church (Memphis, Tennessee)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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