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Proposed Amendments.
The Church and its officers
G-6.0101 (Unchanged)
Christ's
Ministry
G-6.0102 (Unchanged)
Offices
of
Ministry
G-6.0103 (Unchanged)
Offices
Named
G-6.0104 (Unchanged)
Variety of
Forms
G-6.0105 (Unchanged)
Called to
Ministry
G-6.0106 a. (Unchanged)
Gifts and
Requirements
G-6.0106 b. For purposes of congregations
Gifts and
aligned with the Westminster
Requirements Primary Synod, their Presbyteries,
and Sub-Synods, are required to
follow
and fulfill the following
requirements: Those who are
called to lead a life of obedience
to Scripture, this being in conformity to
the historic confessional standards
of the church, must apply these
standards to their lives,
among these standards
is the requirement to live either
in
fidelity within the covenant of
marriage between a man and
a woman, or chastity in singleness.
Persons
refusing to repent of any
self-acknowledged practice which
the confessions call sin shall not
be ordained and/or installed as
deacons, elders, or ministers of
the Word and Sacrament, within
the Westminster Primary Synod.
Congregations aligned with the
Auburn Primary Synod, their
Presbyteries, and Sub-Synods,
are required to follow the spirit
of
these standards, consistent
with their theological conclusions
as
determined by the Auburn
Primary Synod's General Council
Board Members.
G-6.0107 (Unchanged)
Election by
the People
G-6.0108 a.
(Unchanged)
Freedom of
Conscience
Individual and
Coporate
G-6.0108
b. (Unchanged)
Within Certain
Bounds
G-6.0108
c. Persons seeking to be
Candidates received as candidates
for
for
ministry in the Presbyterian
Ministry
Church (U.S.A.) shall have
their attention drawn to
the constitutional documents
of the church including its
statement on freedom of
conscience,
but, the freedom
of conscience permitted will
be
determined by the guidelines
of the
candidates' Primary
Synod (Auburn or Westminster),
with which their congregation and
the candidate's themselves are
aligned.
G-6.0201 As the Lord
set aside through
Ministers and calling and training certain
Presbytery
members to perform a special
ministry of the Word and
Sacrament and has committed
to them a variety of work to do,
the church through their
respective Presbytery, aligned with
the same Primary Synod (Auburn
or Westminster) as the congregation,
calls them to the responsibility
and office of ministers of the
Word and Sacrament, in accordance
with the guidelines of their
Primary Synod (Wesminster or
Auburn). Such ministers shall
be members of their respective
Presbytery which shall designate
them to such work as may be
helpful to the church in mission,
in the performance of which they
shall be accountable to their
respective Presbytery. They shall
be responsible for participation
in the larger ministry of the church
in addition to the duties to which
they are called and designated by
their respective Presbytery. Ministers
of the Word and Sacrament have
membership in their respective
Presbytery by action of the
Presbytery itself, and maintain
their membership in accordance
with the guidelines of their Primary
Synod (Auburn or Westminster).
G-6.0202
a. (Unchanged)
Names
Expressive
of Duties
G-6.0202 b.
(Unchanged)
Pastors,
Associate
Pastors
G-6.0202 c. A
particular church, with the
Co-Pastors consent of their respective
Presbytery, aligned with the
same Primary Synod (Westminster
or Auburn), as the congregation,
may elect pastors to serve as co-
pastors
in exercising the
responsiblity of minister of
the Word and Sacrament for
the congregation.
G-6.0203 When
ministers are designated as
Teachers, educators,
chaplains, pastoral
Chaplains, counselors, campus ministers,
and Others missionaries, partners in
mission,
evangelists,
administrators, social workers,
consultants, or in other specific
tasks appropriate to the ministry
of the church, they shall evidence
a quality of life which helps to
share
the ministry of the good
news.
They shall exercise pastoral
care of those for whom they are
responsible and shall seek to fulfull
their ministry by serving Christ and
their fellow men and women,
strengthening
the church and equipping
it for concern and service to the life of
the human community. In addition
to fulfulling the particular responsibilities
to which they are called, they shall
participate in a congregation, in
their respective Presbytery, and in
ecumenical relationships, and shall
be eligible for election to the
higher governing bodies of the
church and to the boards and
agencies
of those governing
bodies within their Primary
Synod (Westminster or
Auburn).
G-6.0202 a. (Unchanged)
Information
Held in b.
(Unchanged)
Confidence
G-6.0301 (Unchanged)
Scriptural
Practice
G-6.0302 (Unchanged)
Governmental
Responsiblities
G-6.0303 (Unchanged)
Gifts and
Requirements
G-6.0304 a.
It is the duty of elders,
Specific
individually and jointly; to
Responsibilites strengthen and nurture the
faith and life of the congregation
committed to their charge. Together
Together with the pastor, they
should encourage the people in
the worship and service of God,
equip and renew them for their
tasks within the church and for
their mission in the world, visit
and comfort and care for the
people, with special attention
to
the poor, the sick, the lonely,
and
those who are oppressed.
They
should inform the pastor
and session of those persons
and structures which may need
special attention. They should
assist in worship. They should
cultivate their ability to teach
the Bible and may be authorized
to supply places which are without
the regular ministry of the Word
and Sacrament. In specific
circumstances
and with proper
instruction, specific elders may be
authorized
by their respective
Presbytery, aligned with the same
Primary Synod (Auburn or
Westminster) as the congregation,
to administer the Lord's Supper
in accordance with their Primary
Synod's guidelines (Westminster
or
Auburn). Those duties which
all Christians are bound to
perform by the law of love are
especially incumbent upon elders
because of their calling to office
and are to be fulfulled by them
as official responsibilities.
G-6.0304
b. (Unchanged)
Specific
Responsibilities
G-6.0401 (Unchanged)
The Ministry
and Gifts of
Deacons
G-6.0402 a.
(Unchanged)
Responsibilities
b. (Unchanged)
G-6.0403 (Unchanged)
Organization
a. (Unchanged)
b. (Unchanged)
G-6.0404 (Unchanged)
Supervised by
Session
G-6.0405 (Unchanged)
Meetings
G-6.0407 (Unchanged)
Decision Not
to Use
Deacons
G-6.0501
Renunciation
(Unchanged)
of Jurisdiction
G-6.0502
(Unchanged)
Persistence in
Disapproved
Work
G-6.0503 (Unchanged)
Effect of
Renunciation
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