Require accused ministers to testify.

Baptism language should remain as is.

No need to establish a committee to study Sabbath language.

Sent back to presbytery for further consideration.

On June 8th, the Overtures Committee dealt with four overtures. Here’s a brief overview.

On June 8th, the Overtures Committee passed a substitute version of Overture 10 by a vote of 94-0-1. The added language is as follows: That the Assembly receive and spread on its Minutes this and all other overtures memorializing teaching elders who passed into glory during the past year, and we recommend that the Assembly…

The most constructive conversations on racism, systemic injustice, and implicit bias should be happening in the church, because we are called to be the model of gracious living.

Ten new overtures and one carried over from the 42nd General Assembly will be considered by the 43rd General Assembly.

“This overture helps foster better shepherding relationships between presbyteries and men without call,” David Dickson says. “It allows presbyteries to take into account the particular circumstances of a man without call and easily extend the ‘without call’ status year to year, by a simple majority vote of presbytery as the case may warrant.”

The 43rd General Assembly will convene in Chattanooga on June 9. Some 1,000 commissioners will deal with 10 overtures, from subjects as wide-ranging as revising the Westminster Standards’ language on the Sabbath to Baptismal vows to giving testimony during trials.