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Book of Church Order (PCA)
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30-3
30-3. Suspension from Sacraments is the temporary exclusion from those ordinances, and is indefinite as to its duration. …
37-3
… court alone or publicly. At this time the offender shall be restored to the Sacraments of the Church, and/or to his office, if such shall be the judgment of …
36-5
36-5. Indefinite suspension from office or the Sacraments should be administered after the manner prescribed for definite suspension, but with added solemnity, …
36-7
… say: We do moreover, by the same authority, suspend the said ____________________ from the Sacraments of the Church, until he shall exhibit satisfactory evidence of sincere repentance, or We …
37-8
37-8. In the restoration of a minister who is under indefinite suspension from the Sacraments, and/or his office, or has been deposed, it is the duty of the Presbytery …
38-3
… judged by the court of original jurisdiction as failing to maintain the Word and Sacraments in their fundamental integrity (BCO 2-2), that member or minister shall be warned of …
Preliminary Principles
… His body, has appointed officers not only to preach the Gospel and administer the Sacraments, but also to exercise discipline for the preservation both of truth and duty. It …
2-2
… different denominations of professing Christians; but all of these which maintain the Word and Sacraments in their fundamental integrity are to be recognized as true branches of the Church …
3-2
… twofold. The officers exercise it sometimes severally, as in preaching the Gospel, administering the Sacraments, reproving the erring, visiting the sick, and comforting the afflicted, which is the power …
4-4
… are prayer; singing praises; reading, expounding and preaching the Word of God; administering the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper; public solemn fasting and thanksgiving; catechizing; making offerings …
5-10
… be taken to secure, as soon as practicable, the regular administration of Word and Sacraments.
8-5
… flock by reading, expounding and preaching the Word of God and to administer the Sacraments. As he is sent to declare the will of God to sinners, and to …
8-6
… for a renewable term of twelve months to preach the Word, to administer the Sacraments, to receive and dismiss members of mission churches, and to train potential officers. By …
11-2
11-2. The jurisdiction of Church courts is only ministerial and declarative, and relates to the doctrines and precepts of Christ, to the order of the Church, and to …
12-5
… time and place of the preaching of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments, over all other religious services, over the music in the services, and over the …
13-6
… personal character and family management), and also as to his views in theology, the Sacraments, and church government. If the examining Presbytery does not accept the Minister seeking admission, …
14-1
… to be examined in the areas of: a. Christian experience, b. Theology, c. The Sacraments, d. Church government, e. Bible content, f. Church history, and the g. History of …
19-1
… minister’s own Presbytery administers against him a censure of suspension from office or the sacraments, or deposition from office, or of excommunication (in the event of such censures, the …
19-15
… He shall have the right to conduct funerals. An intern may not administer the Sacraments. He may serve on committees of the church he serves.
21-4
… knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew languages, (c) Bible content, (d) theology, (e) the Sacraments, (f) Church history, (g) the history of the Presbyterian Church in America, and (h) …
30-1
… The censures, which may be inflicted by church courts, are admonition, suspension from the Sacraments, excommunication, suspension from office, and deposition from office. The censures of admonition or definite …
33-2
… accused person is found contumacious (cf. 32-6), he shall be immediately suspended from the sacraments (and if an officer from his office) for his contumacy. Record shall be made …
34-4
… an offense is found contumacious (cf. 32-6), he shall be immediately suspended from the sacraments and his office for his contumacy. Record shall be made of the fact and …
36-6
… we, the Session of ________________________ church do pronounce him to be excluded from the Sacraments, and cut off from the fellowship of the Church. Prayer shall then be made …
37-2
37-2. After any person has been indefinitely suspended from the Sacraments, it is proper that the rulers of the church should frequently converse with him …
Also in the Atlas
Divines, cruxes, schools, and heads of doctrine
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Heads of doctrine
Religious Worship and the Sabbath
… Worship includes prayer, the reading and preaching of the Word, the administration of the sacraments, singing of psalms, religious oaths, and the keeping of the Lord's Day. WCF XXI.7-8 …
The Sacraments (General)
Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, …
Cruxes
Sacramental Efficacy: Signs and Seals
How sacraments confer grace without operating ex opere operato or being bare memorials.
The Magistrate and the Two Tables
Is the civil magistrate the keeper of both tables of the Decalogue?
The 1788 American Revision
How the American Presbyterians rewrote the magistrate chapters for a disestablished republic.
Schools & traditions
English Presbyterian Majority
… a significant hypothetical-universalist minority within their own ranks), strict-Sabbatarian, three-uses-of-the-law, and signs-and-seals on the sacraments. The Smectymnuans (Calamy, Marshall, Young, Newcomen, Spurstowe) were the most publicly visible subgroup. Most …
The Savoy Declaration (1658)
… Westminster Confession nearly verbatim on doctrine (including the decree, justification, the law, and the sacraments) but rewrote the polity chapters to replace presbyterianism with gathered-church Independency and softened the …
The American Presbyterian Revision (1788)
… in XXV.6 was also softened. The rest of the Confession — doctrine, soteriology, law, sacraments, polity — remained verbatim. The 1788 text is confessional for the PCA, OPC, and …