---
title: 'A Hard Church to Get out of'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'J. Gresham Machen'
date: 1936-10-10
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
- 'Church History'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 18'
- 'Galatians 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/machen-1936-a-hard-church-to-get-out-of
---

# A Hard Church to Get out of

Critiques PCUSA's 1903 doctrinal amendments as precipitating theological decline and problematic unions; urges strict adherence to the Westminster standards and protests post-departure discipline.

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