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Proposed Amendments
G-7.0303 a. Meetings of the
congregation
shall be called
(1) by the session whenever it
determines
such a meeting is
necessary,
(2)
by their respective Presbytery,
aligned with the same Primary
Synod (Auburn or Westminster)
as the congregation, whenever
it determines such a meeting is
necessary;
(3) by the session when requested
in writing by one fourth of the
members on the active roll of the
particular church.
b. Public notice of the meeting shall
be given on two successive Sundays.
The meeting may be convened following
the notice given on the second Sunday.
G-7.0304 (Unchanged)
G-7.0305
The quorum of a meeting of the
Quorum congregation shall be not less
than one tenth of the members
unless the particular church upon
application to their respective
Presbytery, shall obtain the consent
of their respective Presbytery to
a provision for a smaller quorum.
A congregation by its own vote
may fix a higher quorum. No
meeting of fewer than three members
shall be considered a congregational
meeting.
G-7.0306 (Unchanged)
G-7.0307
(Unchanged)
G-7.0308 (Unchanged)
G-7.0401
(Unchanged)
G-7.0402 (Unchanged)
G-7.0403
Where civil law requires that
Separate corporate burisness be conducted
Corporate in a separate cororate meeting of
Meetings
the congregation, the provisions
of
chapter seven shall apply, except:
a. Such a meeting shall be called
by the trustees at their discretion,
or when directed by the session or
their respective Presbytery.
b. Unless the civil law provides
otherwise, the trustees shall
designate form among members
on the active roll of the particular
church a presiding officer and a
secretary for such meeting.
c. The minutes of each such
meeting shall be attested by
the presiding officer and the
secretary and shall be entered
in the minute book of the
trustees.
G-7.0404 (Unchanged)
G-15.0101
(Unchanged)
G-15.0102 (Unchanged)
G-15.0103 (Unchanged)
G-15.0104 The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Non-Christian will
seek new opportunities for
Religious conversation and understanding
Bodies
with non-Christian religious
bodies.
G-15.0105 (Unchanged)
G-15.0201
(Unchanged)
G-15.0202 When a minister of another
Recognition
Christian denomination is called
of
to a work properly under the jurisdiction
Ordination of a Presbytery, the Presbytery,
after
constitutional conditions have been
met, in accordance with the
guidelines of their Primary
Synod (Westminster or Auburn),
shall recognize the minister's
previous
ordination to the office
of
the ministry. Similar procedures
shall be followed in dismissing
a minister from this denomination
to another.
G-15.0203 a. When a particular church of another
Reception denomination requests that it be
and received
by one of the two Primary
Dismissal Synods (Auburn or
Westminster) and
of Churches its respective Presbytery in that
region,
that respective
Presbytery
shall verify that the church
has
been regularly dismissed by
the
governing body of jurisdiction
and
the advice of the highest
governing
body of that denomination
that has
jurisdiction over relations between
denominations,
has permitted
such
a move by that congregation,
the
church can then be received
by
the respective Presbytery and the
respective
Primary Synod
(Auburn
or Westminster)
that
the moving congregation
has voted to align with.
Such transaction must
comply with G-12.0110 of
these amendments.
Dismissal b. Similar procedures shall
of Churches
be followed in dismissing
a particular church from
this denomination to
another.
G-15.0204 (Unchanged)
G-15.0301
Full organic union of this church
Organic with any other ecclesiastical
Uniion body can be effected in the
following manner:
a. the approval of the proposed
union
by the General Assembly
and its recommendation to the
Presbyteries;
b. the approval in writing of two
thirds of the Presbyteries of
each of the Primary Synods
(Westminster and Auburn)
c. the approval and consummation
by
the next ensuing General
Assembly, or other General
Assembly specified in the
proposed plan of union.
G-15.0302 (Unchanged)
Ecumenical
Statements
G-16.0101 (Unchanged)
G-16.0201 (Unchanged)
G-16.0301 With the approval of both Primary
Union with
Synods (Auburn and Westminster)
Other and
the consent of the General
Christian Assembly, particular churches
of this
Churches church may unite to form union
churches with one or more particular
churches of churches other than those
of
the Reformed faith but which
recognize Jesus Christ as Lord and
Savior, accept the authority of
Scripture, and observe the Sacraments
of Baptism and the Lord's
Supper.
G-16.0401 (Unchanged)
G-16.0501
(Unchanged)
G-17.0101 A Presbytery of this church may unite
Authorization to form a union Presbytery with one or
more comparable bodies, each of
which
is a member of another Reformed
body, with the approval of both Primary
Synods (Auburn and Westminster).
G-17.0201 (Unchanged)
G-17.0301 (Unchanged)
G-18.0101 (Unchanged)
G-18.0201
a. Amendments to the
Amendments confessional documents of
to
this church may be made only
Confessional in the following manner:
Documents
(1) The appoval of the proposed
amendment by the General
Assembly and its recommendation
to the Presbyteries;
(2)
The approval in writing of two
thirds of the Presbyteries of each
of the two Primary Synods (Auburn
and Westminster)
(3) The approval and enactment
by the next ensuing General
Assembly.
Special b. Before such amendments
to the
Committee confessional documents shall be
transmitted to the Presbyteries, the
General Assembly shall appoint a
committee of elders and ministers
numbering not less than thirty,
fifteen from the Auburn Primary
Synod and fifteen from the
Westminster Primary Synod, to
consider the proposal, of whom not
more than two shall be from any
one sub-Synod. The committee
shall consult with the committee
or governing body (or in the latter
case an agent thereof) in which
the
amendments originated, and
report its recommendation to the
next ensuing General Assembly.
G-18.0301 (Unchanged)
G-18.0302 (Unchanged)
G-18.0401
(Unchanged)
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