Hope Presbyterian Church (Bloomington) — Church Directory

Quick Facts

Pastor — the shepherd God holds accountable Senior Pastor (Daniel Todd Herron — original founding pastor; resigned 2020; SJC final verdict 2023; current pastoral leadership has changed)

Founded 2009

Denomination PCA

Service Times Sunday morning worship

Men's Ministry Yes

Kids Ministry Yes

Website danherron.net

Pastor Credentials Founding pastor 2009; resigned January 2020 amid abuse allegations; SJC trial 2022, final not-guilty verdict 2023.

10-Point Theological Scorecard

Christology

Is Jesus the only way? (John 14:6)

PCA confessional — Westminster Standards.

Strong

Scripture

Inerrancy affirmed? Final authority?

PCA affirms inerrancy per Westminster Confession Ch. 1.

Strong

Men's Discipleship

Intentional formation for men?

Verify in person — abuse-allegation history requires due diligence.

Caution

Soteriology

Faith alone? How is salvation presented?

Westminster Standards — Reformed soteriology.

Strong

Gender / Biblical Design

Biblical manhood and womanhood by God's design — patriarchal, complementarian, egalitarian, or affirming gender ideology?

PCA complementarian polity — male elders.

PCA complementarian — male teaching/ruling elders per Westminster Standards + Book of Church Order.

Strong

Leadership Structure

Male elders/pastors? Accountability?

Documented allegations and SJC process; verify current eldership status before attending.

Caution

Preaching Style

Expository or topical/therapeutic?

PCA expository norm.

Strong

Mission Clarity

Great Commission central?

Bloomington IN (Indiana University college town).

Strong

Cultural Alignment

DEI/CRT language? Social justice crowding out gospel?

Pastor matches a red-direction signature list (Warhurst/AMR/Lament/Revoice/CBE) WITH state/presbytery corroboration — cultural drift marker per drift-watch protocol. Auto-applied YELLOW + cultural=red downgrade. RED — current/recent senior pastor signed the 2020 Warhurst Protest (PCA pastors who protested the SJC's discipline of TE Greg Johnson over Revoice / same-sex-attracted ordained men). Cultural posture trends progressive on sexuality discourse.

WARNING!

Accountability Structure

Denominational home, elder plurality, or external network — is the pastor answerable to anyone?

PCA — Central Indiana Presbytery.

Strong

Assessment

Hope Presbyterian Church Bloomington is a Central Indiana Presbytery (PCA) congregation founded in 2009 by Daniel Todd Herron, who signed the 2020 Warhurst Protest. Herron resigned as senior pastor January 2020 amid abuse allegations from former parishioners; the matter was investigated by Central Indiana Presbytery and ultimately tried by the PCA Standing Judicial Commission, which issued a not-guilty verdict on all seven charges in 2023. Hope Presbyterian remains in PCA. Men considering this church should do due diligence on current eldership and pastoral leadership in addition to the cultural-drift signal from the 2020 protest.

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MOOP Engagement Tracker

How this church was personally verified by the MOOP directory team:

✓ Researched church website

Pastor Signatures & Affiliations [Soft-progressive signatures]

Public statement signatures and organizational affiliations of this church's named pastors. "People is policy" — these are evidence-weighted signals about doctrinal trajectory, not the sole determinant of any rating.

Warhurst Protest (2020)

Daniel Todd Herron

Source: warhornmedia.com — hover for details

Sources & Evidence

These are the URLs consulted to arrive at this church's scoring. Score-note claims are synthesized from homepage content, denominational directories, and public statements of faith at the time of review. Church websites change frequently; we're progressively adding Internet Archive snapshots to prevent link rot.

[1] Live source thewartburgwatch.com/2021/03/28/the-abusive-responses-of-…
[2] Live source heidelblog.net/2022/06/pca-sjc-takes-jurisdiction-in-herr…
[3] Live source warhornmedia.com/2020/12/23/pca-hall-of-infamy-pastors-el…

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