How Will You Honor the Fallen?
So, how is your Memorial Day shaping up? Heading to the pool or the beach? Having friends over for a barbecue? Or maybe catching that sale at the car dealership?
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Overture 1 Calls for Commitment to Bible Translation
Overture 1 calls for the Assembly to “urge each Presbytery to devise a plan to support financially the translation of Scriptures into the language of one people group.”
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Overture 2 Advocates Full Constitutional Authority for BCO Chapter on Marriage
Though the PCA Directory for Worship is part of the Book of Church Order (BCO), only three of its chapters have been granted the constitutional authority the rest of the BCO enjoys. Overture 2 from Calvary Presbytery would change that by adding to that list BCO 59, “The Solemnization of Marriage.” The rationale for Overture
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Overture 3 Calls for Ad Interim Committee on Role of Women to be Disbanded
After extended debate, the 44th General Assembly erected an ad interim committee to study the role of women in ministry in the PCA. Overture 3 from Westminster Presbytery calls for the 45th General Assembly to reverse that action.
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Overture 4: Only Males Can be Ordained
Northwest Georgia’s proposed addition reads: “We are deeply convinced of the clarity of Scripture on this topic and as such we consider the doctrine of ordination for elders and deacons as limited only to males as an essential component to our ecclesiology.
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Overture 5 Recommends Changes In The Description Of The Elder In BCO 8-1 and 8-3
Therefore Minnery believes that displaying the fruit of the Spirit and hospitality should be significant traits for elders, and included in BCO 8. Rocky Mountain Presbytery agrees and has sent BCO 5 to the General Assembly.
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Overture 7 Calls for The Mission Of The CMC to be Modified
In its rationale for the overture, Northern New England asserts that most of the CMC’s reports to the General Assembly have focused on long-range planning rather than its other primary responsibility, inter-agency cooperation.
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Overture 10 Calls for Change in Overture Referral Procedure
In the opinion of Skip Gilliken, stated clerk of Western Carolina Presbytery, “The overture provides a further check and balance that helps the Assembly do things decently and in order.”
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Overture 14 Proposes Change in GA Procedure to Docket New Business
Pacific Northwest’s proposal in Overture 14 would not prohibit a commissioner from proposing new business; however, if he has not first presented it to a presbytery as an overture, he would be required to explain why he did not.
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Overture 15 Seeks to Clarify Language on Judicial Complaints
t the Mobile Assembly, the Overtures Committee recommended approval of this proposal by a vote of 80-2, but the Assembly rejected it, 227-427. One of the arguments made on the floor at Mobile was that a thorough revision of the Book of Discipline is in the works and any changes to BCO 43 should await completion.
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