The General Assembly thank the Praise Committee for the production of a number of Scripture Songs and Paraphrases in metre and instruct that they be circulated to those congregations which request them. …
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The General Assembly, noting that the change in the form of worship in the Church authorised by Act I, Class II, November 2010, is permissive and not mandatory, enact and ordain as follows: 1. The General Assembly recognise that the practice of the Free Church of Scotland prior to …
The General Assembly receive the Overtures from the Synod of North America, the Presbytery of the Western Isles (A), the Presbytery of Glasgow and Argyll, and the Kirk Sessions of Lochs and Knockbain, but do not grant their crave for the following reasons: The Plenary General Assembly was empowered …
Bearing in mind the unity of the Church and the several years’ discussion, debate and papers on the subject of worship, and taking into account the purposes of the Barrier Act of 1697 to ensure that no sudden alteration or innovation in either doctrine or worship be enacted without the more general …
1. The General Assembly receive and adopt the Report of the Board of Trustees, and thank the Chairman, members of the Board, the Chief Administrative Officer and his staff for their work. 2. The General Assembly, recognising the divisive nature of the issue dealt with in this Report, affirm …
The General Assembly, recognising the divisive nature of the worship issue and the desire on all sides not to be rushed prematurely into a conclusion, endorse the proposed Plenary Conference and instruct the Board to organise the same at a suitable point in advance of the Plenary Assembly proposed …
The General Assembly note, in respect of the Reference forwarded by the Northern Presbytery to the General Assembly in 2004 and in the light of the Report of the Committee on Worship at present before it, that former General Assemblies of the Free Church of Scotland considered it inadvisable …
Whereas previous General Assemblies resolved that it would be for edification that a new metrical version of the Psalms of David be prepared in current English medium, and whereas the Psalmody Committee to which there had been remitted the task of preparing such a version presented to last Assembly …
1. The General Assembly direct that it shall be part of the standing remit of the Select Committee on Psalmody that they prepare supplementary versions of the Psalms as need arises and that they bring to the attention of the Church suitable versions available from elsewhere. The General Assembly …
The Assembly direct the attention of all ministers and others interested to the Report on the Appointment of Precentors, prepared by the Praise Committee in 1885. Recommendations of the Report, 1885. ” The Committee would suggest that some general recommendations might be issued by the Assembly which would be …