BCO 20.16

Book of Church Order (PCA)

20.16. 19-16

19-16. Where circumstances warrant, a Presbytery may approve previous experience which is equivalent to internship. This equivalency shall be decided by a three-fourths (3/4) vote of Presbytery at any of its regular meetings. Such equivalent experience shall be decided only after the Presbytery’s internship committee has determined and reported that the candidate has met the following requirements: a. he has had at least one (1) year of experience in comparable ministry; b. he has satisfactorily performed the full scope of ministerial duties; c. he has the manifest approbation of God’s people in a local church as having the requisite gifts for the pastoral ministry.

For discussion

  1. Put this answer in your own words, then say what it rules out — what belief is it written against?