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10 results for “Chapter 8: The Elder”
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Book of Church Order (PCA)
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8-10. Elders being of one class of office, ruling elders possess the same authority and eligibility …
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8-6. When a teaching elder is appointed to the work of an evangelist in foreign countries or where there …
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8-3. It belongs to those in the office of elder, both severally and jointly, to watch diligently over the flock committed to his charge, …
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8-9. As there were in the Church under the law, elders of the people for the government thereof, so in the Gospel Church, Christ has …
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8-5. When a man is called to labor as a teaching elder, it belongs to his order, in addition to those functions he shares with all …
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8-7. A Presbytery may, at its discretion, approve the call of a teaching elder to work with an organization outside the jurisdiction of the Presbyterian Church in America, …
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8-8. A Presbytery may, at its discretion, approve the call of a teaching elder to work as a Chaplain whether military or civilian, with an organization outside the …
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… callings, the Church is authorized to call and appoint some to labor as teaching elders in such works as may be needful to the Church. When a teaching elder …
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… govern well in the house and Kingdom of Christ, he is termed presbyter or elder. As he expounds the Word, and by sound doctrine both exhorts and convinces the …
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8-2. He that fills this office should possess a competency of human learning and be blameless in life, sound in the faith and apt to teach. He should …