BCO 20.3

Book of Church Order (PCA)

20.3. 19-3

19-3. Questions for Licensure. If the Presbytery be satisfied with the trials of the applicant, it shall then proceed to license him in the following manner: The moderator shall propose to him the following questions, namely: 1. Do you believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as originally given, to be the inerrant Word of God, the only infallible rule of faith and practice? 2. Do you sincerely receive and adopt the Confession of Faith and the Catechisms of this Church as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scripture? 3. Do you promise to strive for the purity, peace, unity and edification of the Church? 4. Do you promise to submit yourself, in the Lord, to the government of this Presbytery, or of any other into the bounds of which you may be called?

For discussion

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