{"id":988,"date":"2007-04-19T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2007-04-19T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T21:47:00","slug":"news-on-pcusa-book-of-order-revisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"News on PC(USA) Book of Order revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two current items of interest regarding revision and rewriting of the PC(USA) Book of Order.<\/p>\n<p>The first is the status of Book of Order amendments from the last General Assembly.&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/generalassembly\/vote.htm\" target=\"_blank\">vote tallies<\/a> were last updated on April 16 and most of the amendments have been approved.&nbsp; While all of these affect the Book of Order, of particular interest are amendments 06-A and 06-B.1.&nbsp; Amendment 06-A is a major revision of Chapter G-XIV, the longest chapter in the Form of Government section.&nbsp; The amendment also includes some related &#8220;housekeeping&#8221; changes to other sections to match the new sections and words in Chapter XIV.&nbsp; Amendment 06-B.1 moves the ordination questions and service from Form of Government to Directory for Worship.&nbsp; The former is currently being approved by a narrow margin and the latter has received enough affirmative votes to assure passage.&nbsp; The only other amendment whose outcome has not been decided yet is 06-B.2 &#8220;Adding Licensure of Candidates&#8211;On Amending G-14.0309&#8221; which is currently failing by the narrow margin of 60 to 63.&nbsp; All other amendments have been approved by enough presbyteries.<\/p>\n<p>In the other news, at it&#8217;s April 12-14 meeting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/formofgovernment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Form of Government Task Force<\/a>, charged with rewriting the whole Form of Government section of the Book of Order, decided not to decide but to leave a structural question up to the 218th General Assembly.&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/formofgovernment\/\" target=\"_blank\">Form of Government web page<\/a> has not been updated with the report of this meeting yet, but the PC(USA) news service issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2007\/07221.htm\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> on April 16 reporting on the meeting.&nbsp; Specifically, the task force had been working on a new version of the &#8220;G&#8221; section which moved the first four chapters into a new preceding section which would contain the &#8220;foundational principles&#8221; found in those chapters.&nbsp; At the meeting last week the task force voted 6-3 to provide two versions to the next GA: One with the new fourth section and one that left the foundational principles in the Form of Government section.<\/p>\n<p>The news article also talks about the underlying theology of the rewrite and how it is built upon &#8220;missional polity.&#8221;&nbsp; This is the concept that the church does not have a mission, but rather that mission is its only reason for existence. The news story quotes a supporting document:&nbsp; &#8220;Mission lies at the heart of the Church&#8217;s identity. The Church is called into being and is an expression of the <em>mission dei<\/em>, God&#8217;s ongoing engagement  with the world to reconcile, transform, and finally fulfill the divine creative  intent in it.&#8221;&nbsp; (I thought I saw this document on-line at one time but can not find it again.)<\/p>\n<p>The task force next meets August 16-18.<\/p>\n<p>Brief Comment:&nbsp; In the PC(USA) news service article four members of the task force and two PC(USA) staff members to the task force were quoted.&nbsp; <b>All but one staff member (Doska Ross) are identified as clergy!&nbsp;<\/b> Are elders involved in this process?&nbsp; You would not know it from the news story.&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/formofgovernment\/abouttaskforce.htm#members\" target=\"_blank\">membership list<\/a> shows that the task force is composed of six clergy and three elders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two current items of interest regarding revision and rewriting of the PC(USA) Book of Order. 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