{"id":3246,"date":"2019-05-20T09:46:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2019-05-20T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T16:46:25","slug":"2019-general-assembly-of-the-free-church-of-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"2019 General Assembly Of The Free Church Of Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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General Assembly week in Edinburgh gets into full swing today as two addition GA’s convene this evening. One of these is the Free Church of Scotland<\/a> 2019 General Assembly<\/a> meeting at St. Columba’s Free Church<\/a> in Edinburgh. The meeting will run until about noon on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St. Columba’s Free Church<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

One of the features of this meeting is that it meets for business in the evenings so when the Church of Scotland meeting adjourns you can walk across the street to St. Columba’s Free Church and sit in on their meeting. You think I exaggerate? Here is St. Columba’s, and I took the picture from the public gallery entrance to the Kirk’s Assembly Hall. [One of my favourite lines from Doug Gay’s book Reforming the Kirk<\/a> says “The Secession Church planted strategically while the Free Church planted competitively.” In my wanderings around Scotland last year it was not unusual to find a Church of Scotland building across the street from a Free Church building.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, to follow along here are some helpful starting points:<\/p>\n\n\n\n