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, on the Report of their Committee appointed to collect, revise, and classify, the existing Standing Orders, and to suggest such other Orders as might appear to be necessary, did, and hereby do, ORDER: I. As to COMMISSIONS to General Assembly 1. That all Commissions transmitted to …
The General Assembly, with consent of a majority of Presbyteries, and noting that since the suspension of statutory meetings of Synods under the terms of Act 41, Class 2, 2009, the dates of such meetings are no longer meaningful in the Church’s calendar, hereby enact and ordain that: Presbyteries …
WHEREAS it has become necessary, in consequence of the late change in the outward condition of the Church, to amend the Questions and Formula to be used at the licensing of Probationers, and the ordination of Deacons, Elders, and Ministers respectively, the General Assembly, with consent of a majority …
The General Assembly instruct the Board of Trustees to consult with the Training of the Ministry Committee with regard to the provision of leadership training for office bearers. They further instruct the Committee to work with Presbyteries to provide training for members in identifying and using their spiritual gifts. …
Whereas it is desirable that the existing and constitutional law of the Church respecting the business to be transacted in Deacons’ Courts, and the relation of these courts to the superior judicatories, and respecting the jurisdiction of Kirk-sessions, should be clearly known, the General Assembly declare- 1. That the …
In conformity with the Report and Interim Act transmitted to Presbyteries for their opinion by the last and preceding Assemblies, on the subject of the Election of Office-bearers, said Report and Interim Act having been approved of by a majority of Presbyteries— THE General Assembly declare, that it is …
WHEREAS it has become necessary, in consequence of the restoration of the scriptural order of Deacons, and in consequence of the late change in the outward condition of the Church, to point out and regulate the duties of Elders and Deacons respectively, and to define and describe the powers …
1. That when a kirk-session shall have resolved upon an addition to the number of elders in the same, the minister shall publicly intimate from the pulpit, after divine service on the Lord’s Day, that an appointment of additional elders has been resolved upon, and shall also intimate the …
Whereas irregularities have crept into the Church with respect to the ordination of elders, the General Assembly, with the consent of a majority of the Presbyteries of this Church, did, and hereby do, enact and ordain, That, hereafter, no person shall be set apart to the office of an …