The General Assembly appoint a group to study the theology of marriage, separation, and divorce in the life of Ministers and Office-bearers. They declare that the group shall include one representative each from the Board of Ministry, ETS, and the Mission Board, and the Assembly Clerks’ Office, and up …
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The General Assembly, desiring the nurture, growth, and wellbeing of the people of God, and recognising the need for discipline within the life of the Church as a biblical principle that helps to secure such development, and seeking to revise and update the disciplinary processes of the Church to …
The General Assembly, seeking to revise the arrangements regarding categories and records of ministers, enact and ordain that the following rolls and related stipulations shall apply to all ordained ministers and probationers of the Free Church of Scotland. A, ROLLS OF MINISTERS 1.Roll A – Ministers with Charges. …
With respect to scandals, the grossness whereof makes it necessary to bring the persons guilty oftener than once before the congregation, the General Assembly does hereby appoint and ordain, that after such persons are convicted before the Session, it be judicially declared to them, that they have rendered themselves …
The General Assembly, considering that the sentence of excommunication is much despised, and that persons do continue to converse unnecessarily and familiarly with such as lie under that sentence, as if they were not excommunicated, do, therefore, enact and appoint that the sentence of excommunication being first intimated throughout …
In respect of many inconveniences and disorder flowing forth from the ambition, covetousness, and indirect dealing of sundry, who seek to enter into the ministry and, having entered, use unlawful means to decline all correction and punishment their offences: the whole assembly, with one consent, has voted and concluded, …
The General Assembly recognise the risk of exposing the Church to criticism or legal action where procedure allows a Church Court to act as investigator, prosecutor, jury and judge, involving the same personnel in the initial investigation, the prosecution of the charges, the consideration of the evidence and the …
The General Assembly ordain that Church Courts, in all instances requiring them to consider corroboration of evidence against an accused, shall insist, as a minimum, that there be two witnesses to each accusation against a person, or two corroborating items of evidence, or one witness and one item of …
The General Assembly recognise, in addition to the methods hitherto in practice of serving Citations to appear before the Church Courts, that of having the Citation issued by registered post a valid one, and ordain accordingly. …
The General Assembly, with consent of a majority of Presbyteries, hereby declare and enact, That in all cases in which it is necessary to lead evidence before any Court or Special Commission of this Church, it shall be lawful for such Court or Special Commission to appoint, at the …